Heidegger Reframed: Interpreting Key Thinkers for the Arts

202 Pages·2011·3.05 MB·English

by  Barbara Bolt

Heidegger Reframed
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Contemporary Thinkers Reframed Series
Deleuze ReframedISBN: 978 1 84511 547 0
Damian Sutton & David Martin-Jones
Derrida ReframedISBN: 978 1 84511 546 3
K.Malcolm Richards
Lacan ReframedISBN: 978 1 84511 548 7
Steven Z.Levine
Baudrillard ReframedISBN: 978 1 84511 678 1
Kim Toffoletti
Heidegger ReframedISBN: 978 1 84511 679 8
Barbara Bolt
Kristeva ReframedISBN: 978 1 84511 660 6
Estelle Barrett
Lyotard ReframedISBN: 978 1 84511 680 4
Graham Jones

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Contents
List of illustrations vii
Acknowledgements ix
Introduction 1
Chapter 1.Art and the everyday 13
Chapter 2.Art, art business and the work of art 33
Chapter 3.Representation 53
Chapter 4.Art and technology 69
Chapter 5.Praxical knowledge 86
Chapter 6.The artist in a post-human world? 104
Chapter 7.From aesthetics to ethics 122
Chapter 8.Art-as-research 138
Conclusion 159
Notes 161
Selected bibliography 165
Glossary 171
Index 187

List of illustrations
Figure 1. Patricia Piccinini,The Young Family(2002), 117
Silicone,polyurethane,leather,plywood,
human hair,80 x 150 x 110cm.Photography
Graham Baring.
Figure 2. Qin Ga,The Miniature Long March(2002–5), 124
type C photograph on paper,Queensland
Government’s Gallery of ModernArt
Acquisitions Fund Collection,Queensland
Art Gallery.
Figure 3. Michele Elliot,The Dressers(Slip,Skirt 152
and Hoop) (2005–6),plywood,variable.
Photography Andrew Barcham.
Figure 4. Michele Elliot,Hemispheres: Drawn to you 153
(2006),thread and hand crafted dowel
pins.Photography Christian Capurro.

Acknowledgements
It has been a pleasure to be involved in the ‘Contemporary
Thinkers Reframed’ series produced by I.B.Tauris.I would like to
pay tribute to Susan Lawson’s initiative and courage in proposing
a series of books on contemporary thinkers aimed specifically at
the visual artist and visual-arts students. I would also like to
acknowledge Philippa Brewster,Liza Thompson and Gretchen
Ladish’s patience and commitment to the project.Estelle Barrett
has,as always,enriched this book through our ongoing dialogues
and her generosity in reading the manuscript. I would like to
thank Michele Elliot for allowing me to spend time with her art,
read her thesis and write about it.I appreciated the efforts of
Kylie Timmins at the Queensland Art Gallery, who organised
permission for me to reproduce Qin Ga’s The Miniature Long
March(2002–5),and Qin Ga for granting permission to reproduce
it. I would also like to thank Patricia Piccinini and Tolarno
Galleries in Melbourne for permission to reproduce The Young
Family (2002).Finally,the writing of this book would not have
been possible without the time granted by the University of
Melbourne through its study leave programme.There is nothing
more precious than time.