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Benjamin's Conception
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Common Sense
contemporary aesthetics
critical theory studies
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Differential Plurality
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Discours De La
Eisenman's Work
Eisenman’s Work
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Follow
Fugal Form
Hand Mirror
Hold
iconoclasm in painting
Iconoclastic Controversy
Impossible Possibility
intentional
Intentional Logic
Judgement
Laporte's Work
Laporte’s Work
logic
Metaphysical Opposition
mimesis theory
Mimetic Presentation
Oil On Canvas
ontological difference
Original Repetition
Painting Mirrors
philosophical
philosophical approaches to visual art
Philosophical Task
plurality
presence
primordial
Primordial Presence
self-portrait analysis
Slightly
Suprematist Paintings
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WALTER BENJAMIN
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- ISBN 9780415066273
- Weight: 420g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 22 Aug 1991
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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This book explores the relationship between art and philosophy. Andrew Benjamin argues for a reworking of the task of philosophy in terms of the centrality of ontology. It is in relation to this centrality, understood through the differences between modes of being, that art, mimesis and the avant-garde come to be presented. A fundamental part of this book is the original interpretations of important contemporary painters and their paintings: Lucian Freud's self-portraits, Francis Bacon's use of mirrors, R.B. Kitaj and Jewish identity, Anselm Kiefer and iconoclasm. Apart from painting, Benjamin considers architecture, literature and the philosophical writings of Walter Benjamin and Descartes in elaborating the various aspects of ontological difference. The theory of the avant-garde which is developed in the book, in which the avant-garde is a philosophical category rather than a historical marker, is a major contribution to art criticism. It brings the worlds of contemporary art criticism and contemporary philosophy closer together.
Andrew Benjamin lectures in philosophy at the University of Warwick. He is the author of Translation and the Nature of Philosophy (1989) and What is Deconstruction? (1988, with Christopher Norris), and has edited several collections including Post-structuralist Classics (1988) and Problems of Modernity: Adorno and Benjamin (1989), both in the Warwick Studies in Philosophy and Literature series published by Routledge.
