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About the Author
Catherine M. Soussloff is Professor of Art History, Visual Art & Theory and a permanent Associate at the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies at the University of British Columbia, Canada. Her many publications include The Handbook of Visual Culture (2012), The Subject in Art (2006), The Absolute Artist (1997), Jewish Identity in Modern Art History (1999) and Editing the Image (2006).
Reviews
This collection demonstrates the continuing productivity of Foucault's thinking for understanding a surprisingly wide range of the arts: literature, painting, photography, even dance and music. The essayists offer insightful commentaries on concepts such as archaeology, heterotopia, and the aesthetics of existence, while interpreting Foucault's explorations on figures from Shakespeare to Beckett, from Bosch to Bacon, and many others. -- Gary Shapiro, Tucker-Boatwright Professor in the Humanities-Philosophy, University of Richmond
As transdisciplinary methods in the arts and sciences are ascending, Foucault emerges as a central thinker, again, because his oeuvre embodies knowledge that defies disciplinary boundaries. Foucault on the Arts and Letters comprises essays engaging a creative display of figures and concepts while enacting the very transdisciplinarity Foucault helped to craft. This volume should engender similar research well beyond Foucault alone. -- Michael Kelly, Professor of Philosophy, UNC Charlotte and President, Transdisciplinary Aesthetics Foundation
This volume offers a long overdue examination of Michel Foucault's seminal critical engagements with primarily French aesthetics. It is part of a new wave in the evaluation of the philosopher's influential oeuvre, opening new doors and new ways of thinking and reading his work. -- Mark Franko, Laura H. Carnell Professor of Dance, Boyer College of Music and Dance, Temple University
Book Information
ISBN 9781783485741
Author Catherine M. Soussloff
Format Paperback
Page Count 248
Imprint Rowman & Littlefield International
Publisher Rowman & Littlefield International
Weight(grams) 363g
Dimensions(mm) 230mm * 150mm * 17mm