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Bakhtin and the Visual Arts

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Bakhtin and the Visual Arts
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Deborah J. Haynes
SeriesCambridge Studies in New Art History and Criticism
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:240
Dimensions(mm): Height 259,Width 178
Category/GenreTheory of art
Art and design styles - from c 1900 to now
Philosophy - aesthetics
ISBN/Barcode 9780521066044
ClassificationsDewey:701.18
Audience
Professional & Vocational
Illustrations 29 Halftones, unspecified

Publishing Details

Publisher Cambridge University Press
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publication Date 10 June 2008
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Bakhtin and the Visual Arts assesses the relevance of Mikhail Bakhtin's ideas as they relate to painting and sculpture. First published in the 1960s, Bakhtin's writings introduced the concepts of carnival and dialogue or dialogism, which have had significant impact in such diverse fields as literature and literary theory, philosophy, theology, biology and psychology. In his four early aesthetic essays, written between 1919 and 1926, and before he began to focus on linguistic and literary categories, Bakhtin worked on a larger philosophy of creativity, which was never completed. Deborah Haynes's in-depth 1995 study of his aesthetics, especially his theory of creativity, analyses its applicability to contemporary art theory and criticism. The author argues that Bakhtin, with such categories as answerability, outsideness and unfinalizability, offers a conceptual basis for interpreting the moral dimensions of creative activity.

Reviews

From the hardback review: 'Haynes has raised enough questions here to confirm that the work of the Bakhtin circle will provide one crucial resource for a more satisfactory understanding of the artist and the related but distinct problem of social action.' Oxford Art Journal