Bakhtin and the Visual Arts assesses the relevance of Mikhail Bakhtin’s ideasas they relate to painting and sculpture. First published in the 1960s, Bakhtin’s writings introduced the concepts of carnival and dialogue or dialogism, which have had significant impact in such diverse fields as literature and literary theory, philosophy, theology, biology and psychology. In his four early aesthetic essays, written between 1919 and 1926, and before he began to focus on linguistic and literary categories, Bakhtin worked on a larger philosophy ofcreativity, which was never completed. Deborah Haynes’s in-depth study of hisaesthetics, especially his theory of creativity, analyses its applicability to contemporary art theory and criticism. The author argues that Bakhtin, with such categories as answerability, outsideness and unfinalizability, offers a conceptual basis for interpreting the moral dimensions of creative activity. INDICE: Part I. Context: 1. Introduction; 2. Bakhtin’s historical and intellectual milieu; Part II. Bakhtin’s Theory of Creativity: 3. Answerability; 4.Outsideness; 5. un/finalizability; Part III. The Usefuleness of Bakhtin’s Aesthetics: 6. Interpreting works of art; 7. Bakhtin and postmodern art theory.
- ISBN: 978-0-521-06604-4
- Editorial: Cambridge University
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 240
- Fecha Publicación: 19/06/2008
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés