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Beyond Recognition Craig Owens

Beyond Recognition By Craig Owens

Beyond Recognition by Craig Owens

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A guide to one of the most riveting periods of contemporary culture. It explores the relations among the discourses of contemporary art, sexuality, and power.

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Beyond Recognition: Representation, Power, and Culture by Craig Owens

Perhaps more than any other recent writer, Craig Owens explored the relations among the discourses of contemporary art, sexuality, and power. His familiarity with the New York art world and its practitioners in the 1970's and 1980's makes his writing an unparalleled guide to one of the most riveting periods of contemporary culture.

Table of Contents

Preface
Craig Owens: The Indignity of Speaking for Others by Simon Watney

PART I * TOWARD A THEORY OF POSTMODERNISM
Einstein on the Beach: The Primacy of Metaphor
Photography en abyme
Detachment: from the parergon
Earthwords
The Allegorical Impulse: Toward a Theory of Postmodernism
The Allegorical Impulse: Toward a Theory of Postmodernism, Part 2
Representation, Appropriation, and Power
Sherrie Levine at A&M Artworks
Allan McCollum: Repetition and Difference
From Work to Frame, or, Is There Life After The Death of the Author?

PART II * SEXUALITY/POWER
Honor, Power, and the Love of Women
William Wegman's Psychoanalytic Vaudeville
The Discourse of Others: Feminists and Postmodernism
The Medusa Effect, or, The Specular Ruse
Posing
Outlaws: Gay Men in Feminism

PART III * CULTURES
Politics of Coppelia
Sects and Language
The Critic as Realist
The Indignity of Spe'aking for Others: An Imaginary Interview
The Problem with Puerilism
Analysis Logical and Ideological
Improper Names
Interview with Craig Owens by Anders Stephanson
The Yen for Art
Global Issues

PART IV * PEDAGOGY
Postmodern Art 1971-1986
Bibliography: Contemporary Art and Art Criticism
Seminar in Theory and Criticism
Bibliography: The Political Economy of Culture
Visualizing AIDS
Course Bibliography on Visual AIDS
Bibliography
Index

Additional information

GOR002050178
9780520077409
0520077407
Beyond Recognition: Representation, Power, and Culture by Craig Owens
Craig Owens
Used - Very Good
Paperback
University of California Press
19940912
386
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