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The tears of things : melancholy and physical objects / Peter Schwenger.

By: Publisher: Minneapolis, Minnesota : University of Minnesota Press, [2006]Copyright date: ©2006Description: xi, 200 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0816646317
  • 9780816646319
Subject(s):
Contents:
Words and the murder of the thing -- Painting and the gaze of the object -- Sculpture and the broken tool -- Possessed objects -- Still life: a user's manual -- Museal -- The dream narratives of debris -- Last things.
Summary: Concerned in part with the act of collecting, this work is a collection of exemplary art objects. It reveals the object as the self's ultimate other. The author weaves together philosophical and psychoanalytical theory with artistic practice. He examineswhat is left over - debris and waste - and asks what art can make of these.
Holdings
Item type Current library Collection Call number Status Barcode
Book Book CGLAS Library Blue 701 SCH (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 12619
Book Book CGLAS Library Blue 701 SCH (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 08501

Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-193) and index.

Words and the murder of the thing -- Painting and the gaze of the object -- Sculpture and the broken tool -- Possessed objects -- Still life: a user's manual -- Museal -- The dream narratives of debris -- Last things.

Concerned in part with the act of collecting, this work is a collection of exemplary art objects. It reveals the object as the self's ultimate other. The author weaves together philosophical and psychoanalytical theory with artistic practice. He examineswhat is left over - debris and waste - and asks what art can make of these.