LEADER 03831nam 2200661 a 450 001 9910791596803321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-283-00882-3 010 $a9786613008824 010 $a0-231-52062-X 024 7 $a10.7312/day-14938 035 $a(CKB)2560000000049034 035 $a(EBL)908695 035 $a(OCoLC)826476335 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000483855 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12141741 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000483855 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10573419 035 $a(PQKB)10015269 035 $a(DE-B1597)458780 035 $a(OCoLC)979620238 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780231520621 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL908695 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10444307 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL300882 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC908695 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000049034 100 $a20100205d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aDialectical passions$b[electronic resource] $enegation in postwar art theory /$fGail Day 210 $aNew York $cColumbia University Press$dc2011 215 $a1 online resource (321 p.) 225 1 $aColumbia themes in philosophy, social criticism, and the arts 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-231-14938-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aT.J. Clark and the pain of the unattainable beyond -- Looking the negative in the face : Manfredo Tafuri and the Venice school of architecture -- Absolute dialectical unrest, or, The dizziness of a perpetually self-engendered disorder -- The immobilization of "social abstraction" -- Afterword : hotel utopia. 330 $aRepresenting a new generation of theorists reaffirming the radical dimensions of art, Gail Day launches a bold critique of late twentieth-century art theory and its often reductive analysis of cultural objects. Exploring core debates in discourses on art, from the New Left to theories of "critical postmodernism" and beyond, Day counters the belief that recent tendencies in art fail to be adequately critical. She also challenges the political inertia that results from these conclusions. Day organizes her defense around critics who have engaged substantively with emancipatory thought and social process: T. J. Clark, Manfredo Tafuri, Fredric Jameson, Benjamin H. D. Buchloh, and Hal Foster, among others. She maps the tension between radical dialectics and left nihilism and assesses the interpretation and internalization of negation in art theory. Chapters confront the claim that exchange and equivalence have subsumed the use value of cultural objects and with it critical distance and interrogate the proposition of completed nihilism and the metropolis put forward in the politics of Italian operaismo. Day covers the debates on symbol and allegory waged within the context of 1980's art and their relation to the writings of Walter Benjamin and Paul de Man. She also examines common conceptions of mediation, totality, negation, and the politics of anticipation. A necessary unsettling of received wisdoms, Dialectical Passions recasts emancipatory reflection in aesthetics, art, and architecture. 410 0$aColumbia themes in philosophy, social criticism, and the arts. 606 $aArt, Modern$y20th century$xPhilosophy 606 $aArt, Modern$y21st century$xPhilosophy 606 $aNegation (Logic) 615 0$aArt, Modern$xPhilosophy. 615 0$aArt, Modern$xPhilosophy. 615 0$aNegation (Logic) 676 $a701/.18 700 $aDay$b Gail$01551873 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910791596803321 996 $aDialectical passions$93811568 997 $aUNINA