In Praise of Nonsense: Aesthetics, Uncertainty, and Postmodern Identity - Brossura

Hiebert, Ted

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ISBN 10: 0773539743 ISBN 13: 9780773539747

Casa editrice: McGill Queens Univ, 2012

Riassunto

What is truth in the postmodern age? The artistic generation of the twentieth century has grown up immersed in the delirious imagination of postmodern thought, which insists upon the ultimate uncertainty of meaning and that there is no self-evident truth. In Praise of Nonsense explores the possibilities and parameters of a postmodern imagination freed from the philosophical responsibilities of fiction, fact, and replication of lived experience. Mobilizing an array of scholars and contemporary artists, this study examines postmodern thinking through the lenses of identity and visual culture. Speculative, critical, and always creative in its approach, In Praise of Nonsense focuses on theories of disappearance, irony, and nonsense, where the pleasures of the imaginary give rise to artistic inspiration. When truth is unhinged, so is falsity, and all artistic thinking is called into question. Ted Hiebert takes on the ambitious project of holding postmodernism accountable for its own conclusions while also considering how those conclusions might still be given philosophical and artistic form.

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L'autore:

Ted Hiebert is assistant professor of interdisciplinary arts at the University of Washington, Bothell.

Ted Hiebert is assistant professor of interdisciplinary arts at the University of Washington, Bothell.

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Book by Hiebert Ted

Su questa edizione

• Editore: McGill Queens Univ
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0773539743
• ISBN 13: 9780773539747
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 236