Legendary philosopher and literary critic Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975) developed concepts which are bywords within poststructuralist and new historicist literary criticism and philosophy yet have been under-utilised by artists, art historians and art critics. Deborah Haynes aims to adapt Bakhtin's concepts, particularly those developed in his later works, to an analysis of visual culture and art practices, addressing the integral relationship of art with life, the artist as creator, reception and the audience, and context/intertextuality. This provides both a new conceptual vocabulary for those engaged in visual culture
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ideas such as answerability, unfinalizability, heteroglossia, chronotope and the carnivalesque (defined in the glossary)
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and a new, practical approach to historical analysis of generic breakdown and narrative re-emergence in contemporary art. Haynes uses Bakhtinian concepts to interpret a range of art from religious icons to post-Impressionist painters and Russian modernists to demonstrate how the application of his thought to visual culture can generate significant new insights. Rehabilitating some of Bakhtin's neglected ideas and reframing him as a philosopher of aesthetics, Bakhtin Reframed will be essential reading for the huge community of Bakhtin scholars as well as students and practitioners of visual culture.
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Deborah J. Haynes Imprint: I.B. Tauris Country of Publication: United Kingdom Dimensions:
Height: 174mm,
Width: 124mm,
Spine: 15mm
Weight: 158g ISBN:9781780765129 ISBN 10: 1780765126 Series:Contemporary Thinkers Reframed Pages: 160 Publication Date:30 March 2013 Audience:
General/trade
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College/higher education
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ELT Advanced
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Primary
Format:Paperback Publisher's Status: Active
Chapter 1: Bakhtinian Aesthetics Chapter 2: Creativity and the Creative Process Chapter 3: The Artist Chapter 4: The Work of Art Chapter 5: An Interpretive Study: Claude Monet Chapter 6:Context, Reception, and Audience Conclusion
Professor of Art History at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Author of Bakhtin and Visual Culture (1995)