Overview

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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Author:   Craig Owens ,  Scott Bryson ,  Barbara Kruger ,  Lynne Tillman
Publisher:   University of California Press
Imprint:   University of California Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.635kg
ISBN:  

9780520077409

ISBN 10:   0520077407
Pages:   386
Publication Date:   12 September 1994
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

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

Reviews

"""Owens is now widely perceived as one of the dominant critical and theoretical voices of the 1980s, and certainly this volume of essays will do much to cement that reputation.""--""Art in America"

Owens is now widely perceived as one of the dominant critical and theoretical voices of the 1980s, and certainly this volume of essays will do much to cement that reputation. -- Art in America

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