Art Beyond Representation

Download or read book Art Beyond Representation written by Barbara Bolt and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2010-10-07 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Refuting the assumption that art is a representational practice, this book engages with the work of Heidegger, Deleuze and Guattari, C.S. Pierce and Judith Butler. It argues for a performative relationship between art and artist. Drawing on themes as diverse as the work of Cezanne and Francis Bacon, the transubstantiation of the Catholic sacrament, and Wilde's novel "The Picture of Dorian Gray", she challenges the metaphor of light as entertainment. She suggests that too much "light" may in fact reveal nothing. Finally, she asks: how does an "embodied" practice fare within the culture of conceptual art?