Bøger af David Hawkes

A collaborative work by David Hawkes, LG Williams, and Alan Rubin. The Estate of LG Williams is proud to present this publication for LG Williams's recent body of work -- the SoCal Mid-Rise Multi-Story series. In these pictures, Williams merges Thiebaud's now canonical compositions of Sacramento Valley landscapes, San Francisco cityscapes, and assorted pastries. But this is where familiarity and transparency ends. As the viewer looks into the illuminated windows, the mysteries compound and multiply-forms transform into reflections, reflections into abstract thought. They are made expressly for our age-the age of the image. The text, entitled Bullchild, tells of a Mexican illegal immigrant who, inspired by an aging East German Communist Art History Professor, attempts to make his name on the L.A. gallery scene by pretending to be Persian, dressing up as a matador and inventing a movement called "Pedo-Taurinism." Based on a true story. # # # # #

This book supplies that deficiency, providing an ethical critique of performative representation as it is manifested in semiotics, linguistics, philosophy, poetics, theology and economics. and second, by locating efficacious representation in its historical context, thus connecting it to idolatry, magic, usury and similar performative signs.

A guide to the myriad definitions and meanings of "ideology", this title traces the history of the term and the debates which surround it, from Machiavelli to the present day; asks why ideology matters; and examines ideology within the critical frameworks of empiricism, idealism, Marxism, post-Marxism and postmodernism.