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Overview

In an age where art history's questions are now expected to receive answers, Richard Shiff presents a challenging alternative. In this essential new addition to James Elkins's series Theories of Modernism and Postmodernism in the Visual Arts, Richard Shiff embraces doubt as a critical tool and asks how particular histories of art have come to be.

Shiff's turn to doubt is not a retreat to relativism, but rather an insistence on clear thinking about art. In particular, Shiff takes issue with the style of self-referential art writing seemingly 'licensed' by Roland Barthes. With an introduction by Rosie Bennett, Doubt is a study of the tension between practicing art and practicing criticism.

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  • ISBN-13: 9780415973090
  • ISBN-10: 0415973090
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • Publish Date: November 2007
  • Dimensions: 8.25 x 6.27 x 0.44 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 0.55 pounds
  • Page Count: 214

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