Nicholas Zurbrugg, Warren Burt

Critical Vices

The Myths of Postmodern Theory

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Produktbeschreibung

This book of Nicholas Zurbrugg's challenging and provocative essays charts the most exciting developments in late 20th-century multimedia art. Zurbrugg challenges Jean Baudrillard's, Fredric Jameson's, and Achille Bonito-Oliva's unfavorable accounts of postmodern techno-culture. Interweaving literary and cultural theory, and visual studies, Zurbrugg demonstrates how multimedia visionaries such as Bill Viola and Robert Wilson are notable exceptions to the neutering of mass-media culture, bringing together the modernist and postmodern avant-garde.

Produktdetails

• Critical Voices in Art, Theory and Culture
• Verlag: GB Gardners Books / Gordon & Breach Publishing
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: RX9888
• Seitenzahl: 274
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Februar 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 513g
• ISBN-13: 9789057010620
• ISBN-10: 9057010623
• Artikelnr.: 21040021

Autorenporträt

Nicholas Zurbrugg (series editor), Warren Burt

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction to the Series. One or Two Final Thoughts (A Retrospective Preface) Essays 1 Marinetti, Boccioni and Electroacoustic Poetry: Futurism and After 2 The Limits of Intertextuality: Barthes, Burroughs, Gysin, Culler 3 Postmodernity, Métaphore Manquée and the Myth of the Trans-avant-garde 4 Baudrillard's Amérique and the "Abyss of Modernity" 5 Jameson's Complaint: Video Art and the Intertextual "Time-Wall" 6 Postmodernism and the Multimedia Sensibility: Heiner Müller's Hamletmachine and the Art of Robert Wilson 7 Baudrillard, Modernism, and Postmodernism 8 "Apocalyptic"? "Negative"? "Pessimistic"?: Baudrillard, Virilio, and Technoculture 9 Baudrillard, Giorno, Viola and the Technologies of Radical Illusion 10 Zurbrugg's Complaint, or How an Artist Came to Criticize a Critic's Criticism of the Critics

Rezensionen

"Nicholas Zurbrugg is a superb guide to that confusing adventure-playground called postmodernism. Critical Vices reveals all Professor Zurbrugg's critical virtues at their best, in a witty, lucid and always accessible prose. Highly recommended." -- J.G. Ballard
"Zurbrugg is an informed and intelligent critic; he is as knowledgeable about the theorists he criticizes as he is about the artists and poets he chooses to celebrate, and he brings considerable intellectual flair to his arguments." -- Art Monthly