Doubt
Series: Theories of Modernism and Postmodernism in the Visual Arts
List Price: $95.00
Add to Cart- ISBN: 978-0-415-97308-3
- Binding: Hardback (also available in Paperback)
- Published by: Routledge
- Publication Date: 11/26/2007
- Pages: 216
- Trim Size: 5-1/2 x 8-1/2
About the Book
In an age where art history’s questions are now expected to receive answers, Richard Shiff presents a challenging alternative. In this essential new addition to James Elkins’s series Theories of Modernism and Postmodernism in the Visual Arts, Richard Shiff embraces doubt as a critical tool and asks how particular histories of art have come to be.
Shiff’s turn to doubt is not a retreat to relativism, but rather an insistence on clear thinking about art. In particular, Shiff takes issue with the style of self-referential art writing seemingly 'licensed' by Roland Barthes. With an introduction by Rosie Bennett, Doubt is a study of the tension between practicing art and practicing criticism.
