thanks a lot, chris.
it has been only recently that i began to become acquainted with post-modern
thought (lacan -liz
grosz has a revealing book on some of his topics-,
foucault, derrida, deleuze and agamben are my
favourites, but i have yet to read their major
works).
my reservations are not about their best insights,
but about their tendency to see all pre-post-moderns
as dated.
anyway, i'll follow some of your suggestions.
best ana
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From: "Chris Jones" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Saturday, January 23, 2010 4:22 AM
Subject: Re: Image and text
> On Wed, 2003-01-01 at 00:37 -0200, Ana Olinto wrote:
>> what book do you reccomend, exposing an "art thinker's"
>> view, to complemment my readings on the topic, which tend to be
>> either
>> scientifically philosophical or simply art
>> criticism?
>
> Ana, you may need to adjust the date on your email program or computer
> to stop them getting lost.
>
> Elizabeth Grosz, Architecture from the Outside (MIT 2001) provides some
> good summaries of fluid space and William James's and Bergson notion of
> duration. If you have access to a research library, this book is worth
> chasing down. Ch7, The future of space: toward an architecture of
> invention, I remember as being one of the best essays in the book. (If I
> had to teach space, I would be very tempted to use this text.)
>
> Other then that, I am currently reading; Michael Foucault, aesthetics;
> vol 2 of essential works. Penguin paperback and also low cost. This is
> the best of Foucault's shorter articles and interviews on art and
> aesthetics.
>
> On painting, Deleuze, Francis Bacon: logic of sensation. The small
> non-illustrated book translated by Dan Smith contains some very nice
> summaries of basic issues in recent painting, including the best summary
> of a modern triptych I have ever read. (Again, a library should have
> this, although it is not expensive, as far as theory books go.)
>
> Douglas Crimp, On the Museums's ruins, is another book I recently
> enjoyed reading. This mainly concerned art photography and
> postmodernism.
>
> I was lucky enough to be taught by philosophers and theorists who knew
> how to teach creative artists, film-makers and writers and enjoyed doing
> so. Most of that teaching seemed to circulate around Foucault and
> Deleuze, as well as many many others but those two names seemed to have
> stuck with me. Don't know why... This area here is now known as
> Australian Cultural Studies, best Chris Jones,
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