The rhetoric of the frame : essays on the boundaries of the artwork / edited by Paul Duro.
The Rhetoric of the Frame addresses the question of the frame in the visual arts and how it influences the way we perceive artworks. Challenging Emmanual Kant's characterization of the frame as merely an external supplement, the fourteen essays in this anthology consider the frame to be an indi...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge [England] ; New York, NY, USA :
Cambridge University Press,
1996.
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| Series: | Cambridge studies in new art history and criticism.
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| Summary: | The Rhetoric of the Frame addresses the question of the frame in the visual arts and how it influences the way we perceive artworks. Challenging Emmanual Kant's characterization of the frame as merely an external supplement, the fourteen essays in this anthology consider the frame to be an indispensable if volatile complement to the artwork. Inspired by Jacques Derrida's ideas of parergonality, these essays problematize "inside/outside" polarity, articulating difference without reifying the unstable relationship between the artwork and the frame. Ranging from a study of the English country-house portrait to a reading of the AIDS quilt, and from a feminist perspective on pornography and performance art to sixteenth-century map making, these essays collectively consider the frame in its material, conceptual, ideological, gendered, and poststructural aspects. |
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| Item Description: | Papers from a symposium held in June 1994 at the Humanities Research Center of the Australian National University. |
| Physical Description: | xiv, 322 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 274-317) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0521461480 9780521461481 0521566290 9780521566292 |