discipline subjectivity hermeneutics contemporary

books:

Artwords: A Glossary of Contemporary Art Theory
Thomas Patin, Jennifer McLerran

Greenwood Press, 1997

Defining over 400 terms and phrases that have recently entered discourse on the visual arts, this is the first reference book specializing in explaining and applying theoretical terminology in contemporary art. Since the early 1970s, the vocabulary used to discuss visual art has expanded radically, leaving many teachers, students, artists, and critics without the accurate definitions necessary for fruitful discourse on contemporary culture. This ...

Discipline and Varnish: Rhetoric, Subjectivity, and Counter-Memory in the Museum (Hermeneutics of Art, Vol. 7)
Thomas Patin

Peter Lang Publishing, 1999

The Museum of Modern Art in New York combines the rhetoric of modernist domestic architecture, formalist art theory, and modernist museology in its exhibition spaces. Discipline and Varnish investigates how this combination of rhetorical devices has produced not only a persuasive understanding of the history of modernist art, but also a set of "subjectivity effects" that uses the formalist notion of "autonomy" as a powerful model for ...