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The Picture in Question: Mark Tansey and the Ends of Representation

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A rich exploration of the possibilities of representation after Modernism, Mark Taylor's new study charts the logic and continuity of Mark Tansey's painting by considering the philosophical ideas behind Tansey's art. Taylor examines how Tansey uses structuralist and poststructuralist thought as well as catastrophe, chaos, and complexity theory to create paintings that please the eye while provoking the mind. Taylor's clear accounts of thinkers ranging from Plato, Kant, and Hegel to Merleau-Ponty, Derrida, and de Man will be ...

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The Picture in Question: Mark Tansey and the Ends of Representation 1999, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL

ISBN-13: 9780226791296

2nd edition

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The Picture in Question: Mark Tansey and the Ends of Representation 1999, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL

ISBN-13: 9780226791289

Hardcover