书名: Art, Mimesis and the Avant-Garde: Aspects of a philosophy of difference
作者: Andrew Benjamin (Author)
出版社: Routledge; 1 edition (September 6, 1991)
语言: English
ISBN-10: 0415066271
ISBN-13: 978-0415066273
Book Description
Art, Mimesis and the Avant-Garde explores the relationship between art and philosophy. Andrew Benjamin argues for a reworking of the task of philosophy in terms of the centrality of ontology. It is in relation to this centrality, understood through the differences between modes of being, that art, mimesis, and the avant-garde come to be presented.
A fundamental part of this book is the original interpretations of important contemporary painters and their themes: Lucian Freud's self-portraits, Francis Bacon's use of mirrors, R. B. Kitaj and Jewish identity, Anselm Kiefer and iconoclasm. Apart from painting, Benjamin considers architecture, literature, and the philosophical writings of Walter Benjamin and Descartes in elaborating the various aspects of ontological difference. Benjamin develops the theory of the avant-garde as a philosophical category rather than a historical marker, thus bringing the worlds of contemporary art criticism and contemporary philosophy closer together.
About the Author
Andrew Benjamin is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Warwick. He is the editor of the Warwick Studies in Philosophy and Literature series, The Problems of Modernity (1989), Post-Structuralist Classics (1988) and Judging Lyotard (1992); the coeditor of Abjection, Melancholia and Love (1989); and the author of Translation and the Nature of Philosophy (1989), all published by Routledge.
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作者: Andrew Benjamin (Author)
出版社: Routledge; 1 edition (September 6, 1991)
语言: English
ISBN-10: 0415066271
ISBN-13: 978-0415066273
Book Description
Art, Mimesis and the Avant-Garde explores the relationship between art and philosophy. Andrew Benjamin argues for a reworking of the task of philosophy in terms of the centrality of ontology. It is in relation to this centrality, understood through the differences between modes of being, that art, mimesis, and the avant-garde come to be presented.
A fundamental part of this book is the original interpretations of important contemporary painters and their themes: Lucian Freud's self-portraits, Francis Bacon's use of mirrors, R. B. Kitaj and Jewish identity, Anselm Kiefer and iconoclasm. Apart from painting, Benjamin considers architecture, literature, and the philosophical writings of Walter Benjamin and Descartes in elaborating the various aspects of ontological difference. Benjamin develops the theory of the avant-garde as a philosophical category rather than a historical marker, thus bringing the worlds of contemporary art criticism and contemporary philosophy closer together.
About the Author
Andrew Benjamin is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Warwick. He is the editor of the Warwick Studies in Philosophy and Literature series, The Problems of Modernity (1989), Post-Structuralist Classics (1988) and Judging Lyotard (1992); the coeditor of Abjection, Melancholia and Love (1989); and the author of Translation and the Nature of Philosophy (1989), all published by Routledge.
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