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Rosalind Krauss: przekraczanie modernizmu?
Rosalind Krauss: Going Beyond Modernism?

Author(s): Filip Lipiński
Subject(s): Fine Arts / Performing Arts
Published by: Instytut im. Jerzego Grotowskiego
Keywords: Art Theory; Philosophy

Summary/Abstract: The author describes the work of Rosalind Krauss as a process of rewriting the history of modernism from the perspective of structuralism, post-structuralism, and psychoanalysis. The present text attempts a critical analysis of Krauss’ research approach and the strategies she developed, i.e. the negation of Clement Greenberg’s concept of modernism and the Cartesian non-corporeality of seeing, and the deconstruction of the great narratives of modernism (which she calls myths). The scholar makes a significant adjustment to the meaning of “medium” as a term – instead of a “material substance” that supports an image, she suggests “technical substance.” In conclusion, the author ponders the results of Krauss’ query: “Who are we?”

  • Issue Year: 2012
  • Issue No: 111
  • Page Range: 41-50
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Polish