Art Beyond Representation: The Performative Power of the Image

by Barbara Bolt

Overview

Refuting the assumption that art is a representational practice, this book engages with the work of Heidegger, Deleuze and Guattari, C.S. Pierce and Judith Butler. It argues for a performative relationship between art and artist. Drawing on themes as diverse as the work of Cezanne and Francis Bacon, the transubstantiation of the Catholic sacrament, and Wilde's novel "The Picture of Dorian Gray", she challenges the metaphor of light as entertainment. She suggests that too much "light" may in fact reveal nothing. Finally, she asks: how does an "embodied" practice fare within the culture of conceptual art?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780857731791
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	10/07/2010
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	224
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Barbara Bolt is a practising artist and a Lecturer in Visual Arts and Communication at the University of Melbourne.

Table of Contents

	Illustrations	viii
	Acknowledgements	ix
	Introduction	1
	Transcending Representationalism	11
	Contingency and the Emergence of Art	52
	The "Work" of Art	87
	Shedding Light for the Matter	123
	Working Hot: A Materialist Ontology	149
	Conclusion	187
	Notes	191
	References	201