Michael Phillipson
First published in 1985, this book draws together the author´s artistic with analytical practices which had been developed over many years of sociological enquiry. It interprets a `work of art´ as a site on which a viewer or critic is invited to share in questioning celebration of the painting itself. The author reassesses modern painting´s relation to its own origins and to tradition in light of the emergence of `postmodern´ practice — exploring its engagement of fundamental questions about language and being. Also assessed is the relevance of the metaphors of writings and Reading to an understanding of painting and viewing practices — looking at painters´ writings as well as phenomenological and post-structuralist writers.
Acknowledgments; 1 A More or Less Contemporary Pluralogue (Broken) 2 In Advance of the Broken Ar... 3 Recuperating Modernity 4 Modernity Underwrites Itself 5 Painting: Writing 6 Painting: Reading 7 Painting into and out of Meaning 8 Painting Signing-on and Signing-off 9 Painting: Criticism 10 A More Contemporary Pluralogue Re-gained (and Lost); References to the Pluralogues; Bibliography; Index
