Seams : Art as a Philosophical Context (Hardcover)

Introduction by Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe; introduction1 Stephen Melville and Art’s Philosophical Attitude Toward History; Part 1 Essays by Stephen Melville; Chapter 1 Robert Smithson; Chapter 2 Description; Chapter 3 Aesthetic Detachment; Chapter 4 Positionality, Objectivity, Judgment; Chapter 5 Psychoanalysis and the Place of Jouissance; Chapter 6 Division of the Gaze, or, Remarks on the Color and Tenor of Contemporary “Theory”; Chapter 7 Color has not Yet been Named; Chapter 8 Notes on the Reemergence of Allegory, the Forgetting of Modernism, the Necessity of Rhetoric, and the Conditions of Publicity in Art and Criticism; Chapter 9 Compelling Acts, Haunting Convictions; Chapter 10 Painting Put Asunder; Chapter 11 Postscript;