Beyond Recognition – Representation, Power & Culture: Representation, Power, and Culture - Hardcover

Owens, Craig

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0520077393 ISBN 13: 9780520077393

Publisher: University of California Press, 1992

Synopsis

The writing of Craig Owens explored the relations among contemporary art, sexuality, race and power. During the fifteen years (1975-1990) that he lived in New York and wrote criticism for "Art in America", "October" and other publications, Owens covered a wide range of cultural practices: dance, architecture, art, literature, film, performance and theatre. Owens was trained as an art historian, but he is better described as a cultural critic and theorist, whose writings called into question established boundaries between disciplines, especially the separation of theory from practice. A major voice in postmodern culture and politics, Owens is equally well known and regarded for his contribution to debates around poststructuralism, sexual difference and gay politics.

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Review

"Owens is now widely perceived as one of the dominant critical and theoretical voices of the 1980s, and certainly this volume of essays will do much to cement that reputation."--"Art in America

From the Back Cover

Several of the pieces in this collection testify to Owen's great love of music, though he never wrote about opera, which was one of his enduring passions. He was especially fond of the English National Opera, admiring its adventurous productions and its successful attempt to establish music theater as a genuinely popular medium in the United Kingdom. - from the book.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0520077393
• ISBN 13: 9780520077393
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 404