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The future of post-human visual arts. Volume 2 : towards a new theory of techniques and spirits / by Peter Baofu.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Baofu, Peter, author.
- Series:
- Fine Arts, Music and Literature
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Art.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (459 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Nova Publishers, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Are the visual arts really so central in our time that, as Doug Adams once said, ""people under 60, raised on television...remember by what they see....[F]ilm and television are really the language of today""? (TE 2013) This central view on the visual arts can be contrasted with an opposing view by Camille Paglia, who wrote that ""the visual is sorely undervalued in modern scholarship. Art history has attained only a fraction of the conceptual sophistication of literary criticism. Drunk with self-love, criticism has hugely overestimated the centrality of language to western culture. It has fai
- Contents:
- The Future of Post-Human Visual Arts: Towards a New Theory of Techniques and Spirits. Volume 2; The Future of Post-Human Visual Arts: Towards a New Theory of Techniques and Spirits. Volume 2; Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data; BOOKS ALSO BY PETER BAOFU; TABLES; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; ABBREVIATIONS; PART THREE: Spirits; CHAPTER 3: SPIRITS AND THEIR DOUBLENESS; The Necessity of Spirits; Spirits and the Mind; Spirits and Nature; Spirits and Society; Spirits and Culture; The Contingency of Spirits; PART FOUR: Conclusion; CHAPTER 4: CONCLUSION-THE FUTURE OF THE VISUAL ARTS
- Beyond Techniques and SpiritsIn Relation to Method; In Relation to Structure; In Relation to Process; In Relation to Agency; In Relation to Outcome; 34th Thesis: The Post-Human Ephemerality; Towards the Post-Human Ephemerality; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 13, 2014).
- ISBN:
- 1-63463-031-9
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