Foucault's philosophy of art : a genealogy of modernity / Joseph J. Tanke.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tanke, Joseph J., author.

Series:

Philosophy, aesthetics and cultural theory.

Philosophy, aesthetics and cultural theory

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984.

Foucault, Michel.

Art--Philosophy.

Art.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (239 p.)

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Continuum, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Foucault's Philosophy of Art: A Genealogy of Modernity tells the story of how art shed the tasks with which it had traditionally been charged in order to become modern. Joseph J. Tanke offers the first complete examination of Michel Foucault's reflections on visual art, tracing his thought as it engages with the work of visual artists from the seventeenth century to the contemporary period. The book offers a concise and accessible introduction to Foucault's frequently anthologized, but rarely understood, analyses of Diego Velázquez's Las Meninas and René Magritte's Ceci n'est pas une pipe. On the basis of unpublished lecture courses and several un-translated analyses of visual art, Tanke reveals the uniquely genealogical character of Foucault's writings on visual culture, allowing for new readings of his major texts in the context of contemporary Continental philosophy, aesthetic and cultural theory. Ultimately Tanke demonstrates how Foucault provides philosophy and contemporary criticism with the means for determining a conception of modern art

Contents:

The stirrings of modernity

Rupture

Nonaffirmative painting

Anti-platonism

The cynical legacy.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-4411-6675-0

1-4725-4561-3

1-282-87603-1

9786612876035

1-4411-7713-2

OCLC:

682540874