Beyond Piety examines several fundamental questions regarding the work of art and such aesthetic issues as pleasure, beauty and completeness, especially as it functions within the contexts of discontinuity, deferral, displacement and multiplicity. This collection offers a reassessment of the relationship between the art work (or any object considered as something to be looked at) and argument. Engaging the work of art with the discourses of the body, history and textuality, the book offers, moreover, an approach to contemporary art through a novel application of French theory, which is used to reopen questions that have, in both conservative and avant-garde circles, generally been considered to be resolved.
- ISBN13 9780521466110
- Publish Date 29 September 1995
- Publish Status Inactive
- Out of Print 10 June 2013
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Cambridge University Press
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 393
- Language English