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Reveals the artistic subjectivity of the scientific notion of depression.

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"The Aesthetics of Disengagement is the only book on contemporary art that provides a satisfying and profound theory of why art looks the way it does today and how this art is related to broader and deeper structures of subjectivity and meaning in North American and European culture." -Amelia Jones, author of Body Art/Performing the Subject

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Contents List of IllustrationsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. The Withering of Melancholia2. The Laboratory3. Image-Screens, or the Aesthetic Strategy of Disengagement4. Nothing to See?5. Against the De-mentalization of the Subject NotesIndex

The Aesthetics of Disengagement Contemporary Art

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      Publisher University of Minnesota Press
      Published 5 March 2006
      ISBN-13 9780816645398
      978-0816645398
      ISBN-10 0816645396
      Also in:
      History of art Social, group or collective psychology

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Reveals the artistic subjectivity of the scientific notion of depression.

      Trade Review
      "The Aesthetics of Disengagement is the only book on contemporary art that provides a satisfying and profound theory of why art looks the way it does today and how this art is related to broader and deeper structures of subjectivity and meaning in North American and European culture." -Amelia Jones, author of Body Art/Performing the Subject

      Table of Contents
      Contents List of IllustrationsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. The Withering of Melancholia2. The Laboratory3. Image-Screens, or the Aesthetic Strategy of Disengagement4. Nothing to See?5. Against the De-mentalization of the Subject NotesIndex

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