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Fred Orton's teaching and writing has always combined theoretical and formal-which is to say structural-analysis with historical research and reflection. This collection of essays brings together some of his most decisive contributions to thinking about fine art practice and rethinking the theory and methods of the social history of art. In this collection Orton brilliantly moves from Paul Cezanne to Jasper Johns, from the American cultural critic Harold Rosenberg to a discussion of Marx and Engels' notion of ideology. What emerges is more than an anthology, this collection offers a vivid demonstration of the way theory can work to generate new interpretations and unsettle old ones.

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Author:   Fred Orton
Publisher:   Haymarket Books
Imprint:   Haymarket Books
ISBN:  

9781642598230

ISBN 10:   1642598232
Pages:   208
Publication Date:   31 January 2023
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
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Table of Contents

 Acknowledgements 'Present, the Scene of ... Selves, the Occasion of ... Ruses': Fred Orton's Art History  Steve Edwards Publications by Fred Orton 1 Beginning ... with Intention 2 Painting Out of Time  Symbol and Allegory  Modernist Painting  On the Motif  Sensations  A Dabbing Sensation  As If. As If.  Paul de Man, 'The Rhetoric of Temporality'  Slack Links and Gaps  Allegory 3 Action, Revolution and Painting (Resumed)  I  II  III  IV 4 Ideology: Reading Paul de Man Reading Marx and Engels  'The Dead-End of Formalist Criticism' (1956)  'Georg Lukacs's ""Theory of the Novel"" ' (1966)  'The Contemporary Criticism of Romanticism' (1967)  'Roland Barthes and the Limits of Structuralism' (1972)  'Metaphor (Second Discourse)' (1973)  'The Resistance to Theory' (1982)  Excursus: Aberration  'The Resistance to Theory' (Continued)  Coda: Aesthetics, Rhetoric, Ideology  For the End ... Bibliography Index

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Fred Orton is Emeritus Professor of Art History and Theory, University of Leeds. His earlier books include Figuring Jasper Johns,Jasper Johns: The Sculptures and Fragments of History with Ian Wood and Clare A. Lees.

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