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The End of Art Theory

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  • © 1986

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Authors:
  1. Victor Burgin
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Part of the book series: Communications and Culture (COMMCU)

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Modernism in the Work of Art

    • Victor Burgin
    Pages 1-28

  3. The Absence of Presence: Conceptualism and Postmodernisms

    • Victor Burgin
    Pages 29-50

  4. Seeing Sense

    • Victor Burgin
    Pages 51-70

  5. Re-reading Camera Lucida

    • Victor Burgin
    Pages 71-95

  6. Tea with Madeleine

    • Victor Burgin
    Pages 96-111

  7. Diderot, Barthes, Vertigo

    • Victor Burgin
    Pages 112-139

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 205-221
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About this book

Art theory', understood as those forms of aesthetics, art history and criticism which began in the Enlightenment and culminated in 'high modernism', is now at an end. These essays, examining the interdependencies of advertising, film, painting and photography, constitute a call for a 'new art theory' - a practice of writing whose end is to contribute to a general 'theory of representations': an understanding of the modes and means of symbolic articulation of our forms of sociality and subjectivity.

About the author

VICTOR BURGIN is Millard Professor of Fine Art at Goldsmiths College, UK and Professor Emeritus of History of Consciousness, University of California, USA

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