The Optical Unconscious
by Krauss, Rosalind E.Edition: Reprint
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Pub. Date: 1994-07-25
Publisher(s): The MIT Press
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Summary
The Optical Unconsciousis a pointed protest against the official story of modernism and against the critical tradition that attempted to define modern art according to certain sacred commandments and self-fulfilling truths. Rosalind Krauss tells the story of the optical unconscious, an unruly, disruptive force that persistently haunted the field of modernism from the 1920s to the 1950s and continues to disrupt it today. From Max Ernst's collage novels and Marcel Duchamp's hypnotic Rotoreliefsto Jackson Pollock's drip pictures and Eva Hesse's luminous sculptures, she finds artists who offered readymade images of obsessional fantasy in place of modernism's intentionality and unexamined compulsions.
Author Biography
Rosalind E. Krauss is University Professor in the Department of Art History at Columbia University, where, from 1995 to 2006, she held the Meyer Schapiro Chair in Modern Art and Theory. She is a founding editor of October and the author of Passages in Modern Sculpture, The Originality of the Avant-Garde and Other Myths, The Optical Unconscious, Bachelors, Perpetual Inventory, Under Blue Cup (all published by the MIT Press), and other books.
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgments | ix | ||||
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1 | (32) | |||
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33 | (62) | |||
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95 | (54) | |||
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197 | (46) | |||
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243 | (88) | |||
| Bibliography | 331 | (8) | |||
| List of Illustrations | 339 | (6) | |||
| Index | 345 |
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