Seams : art as a philosophical context /
essays by Stephen Melville ; edited and introduced by Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe.
- xi, 239 pages ; 23 cm.
- Critical voices in art, theory and culture, 1025-9325 .
- Critical voices in art, theory and culture. .
Introduction to the Series -- Preface -- Introduction: Stephen Melville and Art's Philosophical Attitude Toward History -- Robert Smithson: "A Literalist of the Imagination" -- Description -- Aesthetic Detachment: Review of Jacques Derrida, The Truth in Painting -- Positionality, Objectivity, Judgment -- Psychoanalysis and the Place of Jouissance -- Division of the Gaze, or Remarks on the Color and Tenor of Contemporary "Theory" -- Color Has Not Yet Been Named: Objectivity in Deconstruction -- Notes on the Reemergence of Allegory, the Forgetting of Modernism, the Necessity of Rhetoric, and the Conditions of Publicity in Art and Criticism -- Compelling Acts, Haunting Convictions -- Painting Put Asunder: Moments Lucid and Opaque Like Turner's Sun and Cindy Sherman's Face -- Postscript -- Notes. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11.