| Painting as Model Contributor(s): Bois, Yve-Alain (Author) |
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ISBN: 0262521806 ISBN-13: 9780262521802 Publisher: MIT Press OUR PRICE: $44.55 Product Type: Paperback Published: May 1993 Annotation: Informed by both structuralism and poststructuralism, these essays by art critic and historian Yve-Alain Bois seek to redefine the status of theory in modernist critical discourse. Warning against the uncritical adoption of theoretical fashions and equally against the a priori rejection of all theory, Bois argues in his introduction to this important first collection of his work that theory is best employed in response to the specific demands of a critical problem. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Art | Criticism & Theory - Art | Techniques - Painting |
| Dewey: 750.1 |
| LCCN: 93142019 |
| Series: October Books |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 7.08" W x 8.94" (1.23 lbs) 358 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Informed by both structuralism and poststructuralism, these essays by art critic and historian Yve Alain Bois seek to redefine the status of theory in modernist critical discourse. Warning against the uncritical adoption of theoretical fashions and equally against the a priori rejection of all theory, Bois argues that theory is best employed in response to the specific demands of a critical problem. The essays lucidly demonstrate the uses of various theoretical approaches in conjunction with close reading of both paintings and texts. |
Contributor Bio(s): Bois, Yve-Alain: - Yve-Alain Bois studied at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes under the guidance of Roland Barthes and Hubert Damisch. A founder of the French journal Macula, Bois is currently a professor in the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ. |