
Beyond Recognition
Representation, Power, and Culture
Craig Owens(Author)
University of California Press
1st Edition
Published on 12. September 1994
Book
Paperback/Softback
386 pages
978-0-520-07740-9 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Edition
First Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Berkerley
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
635 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-520-07740-9 (9780520077409)
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Introduction
Content
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
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