Disclosing spaces : on painting

Andrew Benjamin
Manchester : Clinamen Press, 2004

ISBN: 1903083281

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Book description
A new direction in art criticism is laid out in this striking program for realigning the relationship between painting and criticism. Putting forth the idea that painting evolves and encounters new territory through a constant tension between art and criticism, this treatise draws on the work of philosophers Immanuel Kant and Walter Benjamin as well as critics Arthur Danto and Rosalind Krauss. Each argument is accompanied by a detailed analysis of a wide range of classical, modern, and post-modern art pieces.

About the author
Andrew Benjamin is research professor of critical theory in the Centre for Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies at Monash University. Professor Benjamin is an internationally recognised authority on contemporary French and German critical theory. He has authored many books including Philosophy's Literature(2001), Architectural Philosophy (2000) and Present Hope: Philosophy, Architecture, Judaism (1997).

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