Bøker av Stephen Melville

Catalog of an exhibition held at the Renaissance Society, Chicago, Illinois, May 12-July 7, 1989 and the Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Art Park, Los Angeles, California, July 18-Aug. 20, 1989.

Why did the history of art come into being? Is it now in danger of slipping into obsolescence? And, if so, should we care? This book proposes that we might reframe the questions concerning art history by asking what kind of writing might help the discipline to better imagine its actual practices - and its potential futures.

Melville has applied the tools developed by Derrida and Lacan to the problems of contemporary art. With his roots in Kant, Hegel and Heidegger, he reopens the questions of art's reception, interpretation and commentary. Gilbert-Rolfe provides an insight into his work.