Objects in this mirror : essays / Brian Dillon.

Main entry:

Dillon, Brian, 1969-

Title & Author:

Objects in this mirror : essays / Brian Dillon.

Publication:

Description:

361 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Curiosities -- Talk to the hand -- A poet of the cloth -- Feint -- 801.95/DIL -- On aphorisms -- On Land -- Lost time accidents -- Bomb-weed -- Objects in this mirror -- Pathologies -- Blue notes -- Virus camp -- Feeling feeling -- Image files -- Andy Warhol's cinema of happiness -- In the kitchen with Sophie Calle -- Golden hours -- Future anterior -- On taking flight -- Inaesthetics -- Another fine mess : theses on slapstick -- Le Goût des Autres -- F for fake -- Seven faces of the art vandal -- The revelation of erasure -- Syllabus -- RB and me : an education -- Energy and rue : an essay on essays.

Summary:

"Objects in This Mirror is a collection of essays on contemporary art, literature, landscape, aesthetics, and cultural history. Beginning with a polemical and personal defense of generalism and curiosity, Brian Dillon explores the variety of themes it is possible today to corral within the rubric of the critical essay. These pieces engage with the work of such artists as Tacita Dean, Gerard Byrne, Andy Warhol, and Sophie Calle; with the ruinous territories that haunt the work of Robert Smithson and Derek Jarman; with the ambiguous figures of the charlatan, the vandal, the hypochondriac, and the dandy. Taking seriously the playful remit of the essay as form, Dillon treats of compelling obscurities: gesture manuals of the nineteenth century, the history of antidepressant marketing, the search for a cure to the common cold. Whether his topic is the nature of slapstick, his love of the writings of Roland Barthes, or the genre of the essay itself, he is as much concerned with the form of criticism today as with its varied and digressive subjects."--Publisher's website.

ISBN:

9781934105795
1934105791

Subject:

Art criticism.
Arts, Modern 21st century.
Critique d'art.
Arts 21e siècle.
art criticism.
Arts, Modern.
Ästhetik

Form/genre:

Art criticism.
Critiques d'art.

Holdings:

Location: Library main y 287837
Call No.: BIB 229240
Status: External loan

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