Bakhtinian Approach to the Visual Arts

The Prospect for a New Methodology

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

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A critical study of the theories of Russian literary critic and philosopher Mikhail Bakhtin (1895–1975), considering how his concepts can offer valuable new approaches to interpreting visual art.This work is the first to propose a cohesive methodology for applying Bakhtin’s thought to visual art, drawing on intermediary frameworks developed by Susanne Langer, Norman Bryson, Vygotsky, Pavel Florensky, Philip Rawson, Michael Baxandall, and Gilles Deleuze. Bakhtin’s philosophical and linguistic insights are examined in relation to works by Giotto, Riemenschneider, Velázquez, Cézanne, Picasso, Rauschenberg, Marlene Dumas, Bontecou, Caro, and Ghenie.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-10-30
Mått170 x undefined x undefined mm
Vikt454 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor408
FörlagIntellect
ISBN9781835953433

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List of FiguresAbbreviationsIntroduction PART I: How The Formulation of an Answerable Aesthetics Can Be Applied to Evaluating and Understanding Existing Works of Visual Art1 Architectonics and Once-Occurrent Being2 Outward Appearance – a Segue into Visual Art3 Interpersonal Architectonics as the Foundation for Ethics and Aesthetics4 My Task, Your Task5 The Hero in Art - Examples of Bakhtin’s Architectonics and Author-Hero Relations in Visual Art 6 Heroes beyond the Human (1) Metaphorical Heroes7 Dostoevsky – Pictorial Paradigm or Problem8 A Possible Paradigm of the Dostoevskian Artist - Tilman9 Dostoevsky and Aleatory Process10 Speech Genres and Chronotopes PART II: Bakhtin’s Metalinguistic Theories and General Problems of Transposability to the Visual Arts11 Introduction12 Units of Meaning Versus Units of Grammar - Towards a Typology of Style/Genres in Visual Art13 Thinking in Words or Images14 Synthetic Cubism15 Post Cubism Afterword: A Consummation Devoutly to be Wished or DreadedPossible Opportunities for Further ResearchEndnotesBibliographyIndex

"Expansive and erudite, A Bakhtinian Approach to the Visual Arts is a boldly original and forward-thinking masterpiece of intellectual synthesis, offering a brilliant transposition of Bakhtin’s theories to the visual arts. It highlights and refines an unacknowledged problem in art criticism while proposing imaginative resolutions, making a significant contribution to the field." –Mark Van Proyen