Beschreibung:
In this exciting collection of essays, available together for the first time, David Goldblatt studies key works including Nietzsche and Socrates, and uses the metaphor of ventriloquism to help understand how the art work speaks for the artist, and to the artwork and audience.
criti critical commentary: meaning beside itself; Chapter 1 Bergen and McCarthy: the logic of an act; Chapter 2 Nietzsche and ventriloquism; Chapter 3 self-spacing: Foucault's ventriloqual tendencies; Chapter 4 Socratic ventriloquism: theatricality and the voice of logos; Chapter 5 the dislocation of the architectural self; Chapter 6 self-plagiarism: the ecstatic recycling of the artist's voice; Chapter 7 Cavellian conversation and the life of art; epilo epilogue: two ventriloqual paintings;