Publication

2011 - University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis [Minn.], Minnesota

Language

English

Word Count

128,000 words, Guess

Page Count

512 pages

Identifiers

Classifications

  • DDC194
  • LCCB820 .L913 2011

Description

"Provoked in part by Lacan's influential seminars in Paris, Discourse, Figure distinguishes between the meaningfulness of linguistic signs and the meaningfulness of plastic arts such as painting and sculpture. Lyotard argues that because rational thought is discursive and works of art are inherently opaque signs, certain aspects of artistic meaning such as symbols and the pictorial richness of painting will always be beyond reason's grasp."--Page [2] of jacket.

Subjects

Series Statement

  • Cultural critique books

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