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Feeling Is First
Within the fields of aesthetics and psychology, there is a long tradition of arguing that affect precedes cognition. A verbalized thought following upon a feeling and associated with it does not translate the feeling precisely or adequately. In fact, as C. S. Peirce would argue, the thought itself projects its own affect, which is independent of its logic. The essence of affect or feeling will always elude linguistic capture. This essay argues that experiences of belief and doubt are affective sensations, and both can be graphed on a scale of sensuous intuition or cognitive guessing (which, again, projects affect). The failure of language to grasp what we refer to as instances of emotion, feeling, sensation, affect, belief, doubt, and the like is more of an intractable problem for philosophical aesthetics than it is for the aesthetics of the art experience. Examples of the art of Cy Twombly, Barnett Newman, Donald Judd, Bridget Riley, and Katharina Grosse are invoked to argue through the gap between thought and feeling.
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Doubt
In an age where art history's questions are now expected to receive answers, Richard Shiff presents a challenging alternative. In this essential new addition to James Elkins's series Theories of Modernism and Postmodernism in the Visual Arts, Richard Shiff embraces doubt as a critical tool and asks how particular histories of art have come to be.
Shiff's turn to doubt is not a retreat to relativism, but rather an insistence on clear thinking about art. In particular, Shiff takes issue with the style of self-referential art writing seemingly 'licensed' by Roland Barthes. With an introduction by Rosie Bennett, Doubt is a study of the tension between practicing art and practicing criticism.
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David Zwirner : 25 years
Published on the occasion of the twenty-five year anniversary at David Zwirner, this book paints a picture of the gallery's growth and development through the lens of the artists that have shaped it. Above all else, David Zwirner has been guided by its artist-centric ethos. In ambitious gallery shows at every location, the gallery's emphasis has been on artists and facilitating their vision. With archival imagery form the very early days of the gallery on Greene Street in SoHo, to its transition and expansion to Chelsea, London, and the Upper East Side, the catalogue captures the gallery's devotion to its inimitable roster of artists and estates. Featuring exhibitions and artworks by every artist and estate represented by the gallery, the selection in these pages highlights the countless works that ended up in major museum collections around the world. These works are complemented by a selection of installation views of numerous stand-out shows, in many cases handpicked by David Zwirner himself. With contributions by celebrated art historian Richard Shiff, world-renowned curator and academic Robert Storr, as well as David Zwirner himself, this publication offers rare insights into the growth of a commercial gallery through its long-term commitment to artists.
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More dimensions than you know : Jack Whitten, paintings 1979-1989
More Dimensions Than You Know takes as its focal point nearly 25 paintings created in the years from 1979 to 1989, highlighting Whitten's propensity for pushing the technical and aesthetic boundaries of painting as a medium. The catalogue includes an essay by Richard Shiff, curator of the exhibition and Effie Marie Cain, Regents Chair in Art at The University of Texas at Austin. Parsing various aspects of Whitten's practice, Shiff's engaging essay speaks to the irreducible aspects of Whitten's work, establishing his invaluable contributions to the narrative of postwar American painting. Exhibition: Hauser & Wirth, New York, USA (28.01.-08.04.2017).
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Regarding Art and Art History: Unexplained
According to Greenberg, Schapiro's plug-ins included \"Marx, psychoanalysis, Schiller on how we see ourselves from inside. For this reason, Greenberg linked innovation to the missteps of socially alienated artists, hardly affected by the stains of culture.13 Benefiting from \"the instantaneous shock of sight\" (Greenberg's term in 1945), de Kooning ambled through art history in search of arresting images, while he also admired billboards and remained alert to the play of motor oil on pavement and coffee residue in cups.14 He identified his method as \"eclectic by chance\" - that is, not a method.15 His example cautions me to avoid restricting my interpretative judgments to any particular context.
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Edvard Munch : Between the clock and the bed
This engaging book offers a fresh look at the exceptional works of Edvard Munch (1863-1944) by examining them in the light of his precarious mental state. Following a nervous breakdown in 1908, Munch underwent electroshock therapy, which prompted a marked change in his art work. The haunting Self-Portrait between the Clock and the Bed, finished one year before his death, represents a culmination of the themes of mortality, isolation, and anxiety that he explored repeatedly, and provides, in these pages, a perfect lens through which to view the artist's entire oeuvre. Informative essays consider Munch's position in the art world, his conception of self as a means of experimentation, and the psychological content of his paintings, while a previously unpublished foreword by the celebrated Norwegian novelist Karl Ove Knausgaard offers a new perspective on Munch's life and work. Featuring over 40 masterworks from throughout the painter's career, and an illustrated chronology that traces the progression of his emotional state and its influence on the images he created, this is an intimate, provocative study of an enigmatic artist and his remarkable legacy.
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A companion to art theory
The Companion provides an accessible critical survey of Western visual art theory from sources in Classical, Medieval and Renaissance thought through to contemporary writings. - Provides a critical overview of Western visual art theory from a wide range of perspectives. - Helps students to pursue questions about the nature and ambitions of theory in the context of art.
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