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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description:
Introduction: The Dissemination of Art -- The Muteness and Blindness of Images: Deconstruction and the Work of Art -- Beyond Presence: Form and Figure -- The Frames of the Work of Art -- The Trait and Difference: Art between Form and Gesture -- Words and Art: Exemplarity of the Work -- Mimesis as Difference -- The Deconstruction of the Image -- Conclusion: The Complicated Liaison of Art and Philosophy.
"The concept of the "work of art" is paradoxically both widely used and often unexamined. This book re-evaluates the scope of "work," "art," and "the aesthetic" from the viewpoint of deconstructionist philosophy and suggests that Derrida's analyses resolve some central questions in the discourses of contemporary visual arts"--