Dialectical Passions: Negation in Postwar Art Theory

Gail Day

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December, 2010
Cloth, 320 pages, 15 halftones
ISBN: 978-0-231-14938-9
$50.00 / £34.50

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. T. J. Clark and the Pain of the Unattainable Beyond

2. Looking the Negative in the Face: Manfredo Tafuri and the Venice School of Architecture

3. Absolute Dialectical Unrest, Or, the Dizziness of a Perpetually Self-Engendered Disorder

4. The Immobilization of Social Abstraction

Afterword: Abstract and Transitive Possibilities

Notes

Index

Related Subjects

• Aesthetics
• Art History
• Literary Criticism and Theory

Series

• Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts

About the Author

Gail Day is senior lecturer in the School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies at the University of Leeds.

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