
Bakhtin and the Visual Arts
Deborah J. Haynes(Author)
Cambridge University Press
Published on 30. November 1995
Book
Hardback
238 pages
978-0-521-47392-7 (ISBN)
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Description
Bakhtin and the Visual Arts assesses the relevance of Mikhail Bakhtin's ideas as they relate to painting and sculpture. First published in the 1960s, Bakhtin's writings introduced the concepts of carnival and dialogue or dialogism, which have had significant impact in such diverse fields as literature and literary theory, philosophy, theology, biology and psychology. In his four early aesthetic essays, written between 1919 and 1926, and before he began to focus on linguistic and literary categories, Bakhtin worked on a larger philosophy of creativity, which was never completed. Deborah Haynes's in-depth 1995 study of his aesthetics, especially his theory of creativity, analyses its applicability to contemporary art theory and criticism. The author argues that Bakhtin, with such categories as answerability, outsideness and unfinalizability, offers a conceptual basis for interpreting the moral dimensions of creative activity.
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Review of the hardback: 'Haynes has raised enough questions here to confirm that the work of the Bakhtin circle will provide one crucial resource for a more satisfactory understanding of the artist and the related but distinct problem of social action.' Oxford Art JournalMore details
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
29 Halftones, unspecified
Dimensions
Height: 260 mm
Width: 183 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
650 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-521-47392-7 (9780521473927)
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Person
Deborah J. Haynes is Professor of Art and Art History at the University of Colorado, Boulder. She is both a writer and artist. Haynes has published several other books: Bakhtin and the Visual Arts (1995), The Vocation of the Artist (1997), Art Lessons (2003), Book of This Place: The Land, Art & Spirituality (Pickwick Publications, 2009). Bakhtin Reframed is forthcoming.
Content
Part I. Context: 1. Introduction; 2. Bakhtin's historical and intellectual milieu; Part II. Bakhtin's Theory of Creativity: 3. Answerability; 4. Outsideness; 5. Un/finalizability; Part III. The Usefuleness of Bakhtin's Aesthetics: 6. Interpreting works of art; 7. Bakhtin and postmodern art theory.