Beyond Recognition

by Owens, Craig; Bryson, Scott; Kruger, Barbara; Tillman, Lynne; Weinstock, Jane

• ISBN13: 9780520077409
• ISBN10: 0520077407
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1994-08-01
• Publisher: Univ of California Pr

Summary

Perhaps more than any other recent writer, Craig Owens explored the relations among the discourses of contemporary art, sexuality, and power. His familiarity with the New York art world and its practitioners in the 1970's and 1980's makes his writing an unparalleled guide to one of the most riveting periods of contemporary culture.

Table of Contents

Preface
Craig Owens: "The Indignity of Speaking for Others"
Toward a Theory of Postmodernism
Einstein on the Beach: The Primacy of Metaphor	p. 3
Photography en abyme	p. 16
Detachment: from the parergon	p. 31
Earthwords	p. 40
The Allegorical Impulse: Toward a Theory of Postmodernism	p. 52
The Allegorical Impulse: Toward a Theory of
Postmodernism, Part 2	p. 70
Representation, Appropriation, and Power	p. 88
Sherrie Levine at AandM Artworks	p. 114
Allan McCollum: Repetition and Difference	p. 117
From Work to Frame, or, Is There Life After "The Death of the Author"?	p. 122
Sexuality/Power
Honor, Power, and the Love of Women	p. 143
William Wegman's Psychoanalytic Vaudeville	p. 156
The Discourse of Others: Feminists and Postmodernism	p. 166
The Medusa Effect, or, The Spectacular Ruse	p. 191
Posing	p. 201
Outlaws: Gay Men in Feminism	p. 218
Cultures
Politics of Coppelia	p. 239
Sects and Language	p. 243
The Critic as Realist	p. 253
"The Indignity of Speaking for Others": An Imaginary Interview	p. 259
The Problem with Puerilism	p. 263
Analysis Logical and Ideological	p. 268
Improper Names	p. 284
Interview with Craig Owens	p. 298
The Yen for Art	p. 316
Global Issues	p. 324
Pedagogy
Postmodern Art 1971-1986	p. 329
Bibliography: Contemporary Art and Art Criticism	p. 334
Seminar in Theory and Criticism	p. 339
Bibliography: The Political Economy of Culture	p. 345
Visualizing AIDS	p. 355
Course Bibliography on Visual AIDS	p. 358
Bibliography	p. 367
Index	p. 371
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