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The optical unconscious / Rosalind E. Krauss.

By: Publication details: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c1993.Description: 353 p. : ill. ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0262611058 (pbk.):
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • N7430.5 .K73 1993
Summary: The Optical Unconscious is a protest against the official story of modernism and against the critical tradition that attempted to define modern art according to certain sacred truths. Rosalind Krauss tells the story of the optical unconscious, an unruly, disruptive force that haunted modernism from the 1920s to the 1950s, and which continues to disrupt it today.
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Books Books American University in Dubai American University in Dubai Main Collection N 7430.5 .K73 1993 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Copy Type:01 - Books Available 630491

"October books."

Includes bibliographical references (p. [331]-337) and index.

The Optical Unconscious is a protest against the official story of modernism and against the critical tradition that attempted to define modern art according to certain sacred truths. Rosalind Krauss tells the story of the optical unconscious, an unruly, disruptive force that haunted modernism from the 1920s to the 1950s, and which continues to disrupt it today.

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