Art Beyond Representation

The Performative Power of the Image

By: Barbara Bolt

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Paperback | 30 July 2004 | Edition Number 1

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Refuting the assumption that art is a representational practice, Bolt's striking argument engages with the work of Heidegger, Deleuze and Guattari, C.S.Peirce and Judith Butler to argue for a performative relationship between art and artist. Drawing on themes as diverse as the work of Cézanne and of Francis Bacon, the transubstantiation of the Catholic sacrament and Wilde's novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, she challenges the metaphor of light as enlightenment, reconceiving this revealing light as the blinding glare of the Australian sun, and suggests that too much light may in fact reveal nothing. Finally she asks: how does an embodied practice fare within the culture of conceptual art?

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Non-Fiction Arts & Entertainment History of Art & Design Styles Art from 1900 to Current Art from 1960 Conceptual Art General Issues in Art Theory of Art Philosophy Philosophy & Aesthetics

Illustrations	p. viii
Acknowledgements	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Transcending Representationalism	p. 11
Contingency and the Emergence of Art	p. 52
The "Work" of Art	p. 87
Shedding Light for the Matter	p. 123
Working Hot: A Materialist Ontology	p. 149
Conclusion	p. 187
Notes	p. 191
References	p. 201
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