In Praise of Nonsense: Aesthetics, Uncertainty, and Postmodern Identity
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What is truth in an age of uncertainty? The artistic generation of the late-twentieth century has grown up immersed in the delirious imagination of postmodern thought, which insists upon the ultimate uncertainty of meaning and that there is no self-evident truth. In Praise of Nonsense explores the possibilities and parameters of a postmodern imagination freed from the philosophical responsibilities of fiction, fact, and replication of lived experience. Mobilizing a range of scholars and contemporary artists, Ted Hiebert examines postmodern thinking through the lenses of identity and visual culture. Speculative, critical, and creative in its approach, In Praise of Nonsense focuses on theories of disappearance, irony, and nonsense, where the pleasures of the imaginary give rise to artistic inspiration. When truth is unhinged, so is falsity, and all artistic thinking is called into question. Hiebert takes on the ambitious project of holding postmodernism accountable for its own conclusions while also considering how those conclusions might still be given philosophical and artistic form. Book jacket.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0773539743
ISBN13:9780773539747
Release Date:June 2012
Publisher:McGill-Queen's University Press
Length:248 Pages
Weight:0.80 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 5.9" x 8.8"
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