Beyond recognition : representation, power and culture / Craig Owens ; edited by Scott Bryson ... [et al.]

By: Owens, Craig .

Contributor(s): Bryson, Scott Stewart | Kruger, Barbara, 1945- | Tillman, Lynne | Weinstock, Jane .

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BookPublisher: Berkeley ; London : University of California Press, 1992Description: xvii, 386 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 0520077407.Subject(s): Arts -- Psychological aspects

| Politics in art

| Arts, Modern -- 20th century

DDC classification: 700.1

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
General Lending	MTU Crawford College of Art and Design Library Lending	700.1 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		00054788

Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Perhaps more than any other recent writer, Craig Owens explored the relations among the discourses of contemporary art, sexuality, and power. His familiarity with the New York art world and its practitioners in the 1970's and 1980's makes his writing an unparalleled guide to one of the most riveting periods of contemporary culture.

Bibiography: p. 367-369. - Includes index.

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Library Journal Review

As an editor for Art in America , a contributor to such scholarly publications as Skyline and October , and a professor of art history at Yale and Barnard, Owens was a theorist and critic of contemporary culture. Here his colleagues have assembled several of his essays and critical writings as a memorial to Owens, who succumbed to AIDS in 1990 at 39. Set within the framework of the postmodernist movement of the 1970s and 1980s, these highly esoteric essays cover such diverse topics as photography, allegory, feminism, gay politics, art in the marketplace, serial art, and psychoanalysis. The concluding section contains valuable bibliographic material and syllabi devised by Owens for his university courses. Unfortunately, the text is laden with academic jargon, making it intelligible to a select few. Recommended for specialized art history and contemporary culture collections.--Joan Levin, MLS, Chicago (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.