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OverviewArt of the Real is devoted to registering the materialist turn of contemporary theory in visual studies. For many years, visual studies was dominated by post-structuralist theory and its attendant nominalism. More recently, however, the materialism of Slavoj Žižek, the realism of Gilles Deleuze, especially as imputed by Manuel de Landa, and Alain Badiou has disrupted this status quo. Today, we are more likely to take for granted the relevance of biology and the natural sciences, while the return of Marx has been more serious than countenanced by Derrida or Foucault. This book considers visual studies and the questions that have led to the new materialism, its ontology and its relation to contemporary politics. While a good deal of work has promoted a materialist agenda at the same time that scholars in art history and visual studies have felt liberated by the call to attend to objects, materials and “materiality,” no publication has yet treated this move for its meta-theoretical commitments. This volume does this by addressing the conditions that have brought about the turn to materiality, the ontological commitments that follow on from new materialist metaphysics, and the political implications wrought by these commitments. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Roger Rothman , Ian VerstegenPublisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing Imprint: Cambridge Scholars Publishing Edition: Unabridged edition ISBN: 9781443876537ISBN 10: 1443876534 Pages: 195 Publication Date: 03 July 2015 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationRoger Rothman is the Samuel H. Kress Professor of Art History at Bucknell University. He has published articles on Cubism, Dada, and Surrealism, and is the author of Tiny Surrealism: Salvador Dali and the Aesthetics of the Small (Nebraska, 2012). He is currently writing a book on Fluxus and the production of an affirmative neo-avant-garde.Ian Verstegen is Associate Director of Visual Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He has published on early modern and modern art, historiography and theory. He is the author of A Realist Theory of Art History (2013) and Cognitive Iconology: When and How Psychology Explains Images (2014). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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