Art After Deconstruction

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Art After Deconstruction
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:176
Dimensions(mm): Height 224,Width 174
Category/GenreThe arts -miscellaneous
ISBN/Barcode 9780646552972
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Queensland Art Gallery
Imprint Queensland Art Gallery
Publication Date 1 May 2011
Publication Country Australia

Description

In 1999 the artist and art critic Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe published the now classic Beauty and the Contemporary Sublime. The book was an alternative history of art and its relationship to technology and an argument for the return of beauty in contemporary art. It was seen as part of a whole wave of books advocating the revival of aesthetics in the wake of postmodernism. Gilbert-Rolfe's book was unusual, however, in that it made its case using the same French theory as the postmodernism it opposed. Art after Deconstruction continues Gilbert-Rolfe's argument for the return of aesthetics in contemporary art.