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Title:

DOUBT

By:

Richard Shiff

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Hardback

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ISBN 10:

0415973082

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9780415973083

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Publisher:

TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD

Pub. date:

26 November, 2007

Series:

Theories of Modernism and Postmodernism in the Visual Arts

Pages:

214

Description:

In an age where art history's questions are expected to receive answers, this work embraces doubt as a critical tool and asks how particular histories of art have come to be. It is a study of the tension between practicing art and practicing criticism.

Synopsis:

In an age where art history's questions are now expected to receive answers, Richard Shiff presents a challenging alternative. In this essential new addition to James Elkins's series Theories of Modernism and Postmodernism in the Visual Arts, Richard Shiff embraces doubt as a critical tool and asks how particular histories of art have come to be. Shiff's turn to doubt is not a retreat to relativism, but rather an insistence on clear thinking about art. In particular, Shiff takes issue with the style of self-referential art writing seemingly 'licensed' by Roland Barthes. With an introduction by Rosie Bennett, Doubt is a study of the tension between practicing art and practicing criticism.

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