The Optical Unconscious

By:

Rosalind E Krauss

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Paperback / softback

Series:

October Books

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"The Optical Unconscious" is a pointed protest against the official story of modernism and against the critical tradition that attempted to define modern art according to certain sacred commandments and self-fulfilling truths. Rosalind Krauss tells the story of the optical unconscious, an unruly, disruptive force that persistently haunted the field of modernism from the 1920s to the 1950s and continues to disrupt it today. From Max Ernst's collage novels and Marcel Duchamp's hypnotic "Rotoreliefs" to Jackson Pollock's drip pictures and Eva Hesse's luminous sculptures, she finds artists who offered ready-made images of obsessional fantasy in place of modernism's intentionality and unexamined compulsions.

Author Biography:

Rosalind E. Krauss is University Professor in the Department of Art History at Columbia University, where, from 1995 to 2006, she held the Meyer Schapiro Chair in Modern Art and Theory. She is a founding editor of October and the author of Passages in Modern Sculpture, The Originality of the Avant-Garde and Other Myths, The Optical Unconscious, Bachelors, Perpetual Inventory, Under Blue Cup (all published by the MIT Press), and other books.

Release date NZ

July 25th, 1994

Author

Rosalind E Krauss

Audiences

Further/Higher Education
General (US: Trade)
Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Professional & Vocational

Interest Age

From 18 years

Pages

366

Series

October Books

Dimensions

178x229x22

ISBN-13

9780262611053

Product ID

2425849

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