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The Picture in Question

Paperback • 1999 • English

The Picture in Question

By Mark C. Taylor

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About the book

An exploration of the possibilities of representation after modernism, this study charts the logic and continuity of Mark Tansey's painting by considering the philosophical ideas behind Tansey's art. Mark Taylor examines how Tansey uses structuralist and poststructuralist thought as well as catastrophe, chaos, and complexity theory to create paintings that please the eye while provoking the mind. Taylor's accounts of thinkers ranging from Plato, Kant, and Hegel to Merleau-Ponty, Derrida, and de ...Show more

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9780226791296

Publisher

University of Chicago Press

Published year

1999

Language

English

Original title

The Picture in Question

Format

Paperback

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