Books in the Textures S. series

This text points to a radical transition from book to screen, exploring how the visible and the expressive are interrelated in the philosophical intimacy of art and culture - in painting, film, photography and literature.

Exploring three closely related topics that contest received attitudes about cultural identity, this book opens with two complementary challenges from within the West: the critique of orthodox positions on subjectivity and the cultural meltdown that accompanied fascism.

This text explores art, literature, politics, and philosophy to illuminate how the concept and experience of beauty has changed. The essays range from Hegel and Modernism to Marcel Duchamp and the Avant-Garde, postmodern poetics, boredom and Proust, to Derrida and the glory and gift of death.