Painting As Model

Name: Painting As Model
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ISBN: 9780262521802

ISBN-10: 0262521806

ISBN-13: 9780262521802

Edition: 1993

Authors: Yve-Alain Bois, George Baker, Benjamin H. D. Buchloh, Leah Dickerman

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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. Yve-Alain Bois was a founder of the French journal Macula and a Fellow at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris. He is currently Professor…

Book details

List price: $45.00
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 5/4/1993
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 358
Size: 6.94" wide x 9.00" long x 0.64" tall
Weight: 1.738
Language: English

Yve-Alain Bois is professor of the history of art at Harvard University.