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The Pragmatism in the History of Art (Pre Occupations) Hardcover – August 22, 2013

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The pragmatism of Charles Peirce and William James and John Dewey exists as it moved, absorbing and absorbed. Conclusions remain provisions, time riding on, perpetually unsettled, nocturnal, opaque. Many questions and conditions remain. They will recur. The future has not eased. In our own lifetime there have been stakes, some old, some new, in continuing to write about the time and place and point of art. It is important to mark them. Pragmatism is above all a way of working, it starts from the present. The Pragmatism in the History of Art traces the questions that modern art history has used to make sense of the changes overtaking both art and life. A genealogy emerges naturally, elliptically. Several generations cross back and forth over the Atlantic. The questions combine with case studies as a story unfolds: the work of Meyer Schapiro, Henri Focillon, Alexander Dorner, George Kubler, Robert Herbert, T. J. Clark and Linda Nochlin is scrutinized; the philosophy of Michel Foucault and Gilles Deleuze and the films of Chris Marker and Jean-Luc Godard show distinctly pragmatic effects; artists discussed include Vincent Van Gogh, Isamu Noguchi, Lawrence Weiner and Gordon Matta-Clark. The relevance of this material for the art and art-writing of our own time becomes increasingly clear.

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Periscope
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August 22, 2013
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1934772267
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978-1934772263
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The Pragmatism in the History of Art traces the questions that modern art history has used to make sense of the changes overtaking both art and life. The questions combine with case studies as a story unfolds: the work of Meyer Schapiro, Henri Focillon, Alexander Dorner, George Kubler, Robert Herbert, T. J. Clark and Linda Nochlin is scrutinized; the philosophy of Michel Foucault and Gilles Deleuze and the films of Chris Marker and Jean-Luc Godard show distinctly pragmatic effects; artists discussed include Vincent Van Gogh, Isamu Noguchi, Lawrence Weiner and Gordon Matta-Clark. The relevance of this material for the art and art-writing of our own time becomes increasingly clear.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Periscope; n edition (August 22, 2013)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 128 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1934772267
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1934772263
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 12.8 ounces

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Douglas La Tourette

Pragmatic Artwork

Reviewed in the United States on April 25, 2015

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The saying goes "Philosophy doesn't bake bread". This book has proven invaluable to me and my view of art making. I have created an artwork that both supports life and creates life. ( "Bird Rest Stop" includes a bird suet and a water dish, it also includes test tubes that will show seed development over time). It will be displayed at Conference House Park in SI, NY through the summer.

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Big Reader

Absolutely brilliant work. It combines a new historical metholody with ...

Reviewed in the United States on June 4, 2017

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Absolutely brilliant work. It combines a new historical metholody with the practice of this methodology in the 20th century.

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Andrew

A delight and a model.

Reviewed in the United States on December 25, 2014

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An extraordinary book and a joy to read. Thrilled to discover that some academics still care about the quality of their prose. Here, not a word is wasted. A delight and a model.

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David Everitt Howe

Such a beautiful book about the stakes of modernism

Reviewed in the United States on October 13, 2019

This is a beautiful book. It’s so rare to come upon an academic art historian who’s incisive and also writes like a real person, and like a real writer who cares about the craft of writing. She really grounds art history in ways that make it seem vital and necessary.

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