In praise of nonsense : aesthetics, uncertainty, and postmodern identity / Ted Hiebert.

Main entry:

Hiebert, Ted, 1973- author.

Title & Author:

In praise of nonsense : aesthetics, uncertainty, and postmodern identity / Ted Hiebert.

Publication:

Description:

viii, 236 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-231) and index.
Preface -- Willful alienation -- Prosthetic phenomenology -- Vacuous being -- Playing dead -- Fantasies of trauma -- Perspectival roadkill -- Becoming-Rorschach -- Photographing vampires -- Metaphysical laziness -- Postscript.

Summary:

What is truth in the postmodern age? The artistic generation of the twentieth century has grown up immersed in the delirious imagination of postmodern thought, which insists upon the ultimate uncertainty of meaning and that there is no self-evident truth. This title explores the possibilities and parameters of a postmodern imagination freed from the philosophical responsibilities of fiction, fact, and replication of lived experience. Mobilizing an array of scholars and contemporary artists, this study examines postmodern thinking through the lenses of identity and visual culture. Speculative, critical, and always creative in its approach, "In Praise of Nonsense" focuses on theories of disappearance, irony, and nonsense, where the pleasures of the imaginary give rise to artistic inspiration.

ISBN:

9780773539730 (cloth)
0773539735 (cloth)
9780773539747 (paper)
0773539743 (paper)

Subject:

Bürger, Christa 1935- Postmoderne
Aesthetics.
Postmodernism.
Imagination.
Uncertainty.
Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Esthétique.
Postmodernisme.
Incertitude.
Création (Arts)
imagination.
Ästhetik
Ungewissheit

Holdings:

Location: Library main 279116
Call No.: BIB 215010
Status: Available

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