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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.
"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
List of Figures
Abbreviations
Introduction
PART I: How The Formulation of an Answerable Aesthetics Can Be Applied to Evaluating and Understanding Existing Works of Visual Art
1 Architectonics and Once-Occurrent Being
2 Outward Appearance – a Segue into Visual Art
3 Interpersonal Architectonics as the Foundation for Ethics and Aesthetics
4 My Task, Your Task
5 The Hero in Art - Examples of Bakhtin’s Architectonics and Author-Hero Relations in Visual Art
6 Heroes beyond the Human (1) Metaphorical Heroes
7 Dostoevsky – Pictorial Paradigm or Problem
8 A Possible Paradigm of the Dostoevskian Artist - Tilman
9 Dostoevsky and Aleatory Process
10 Speech Genres and Chronotopes
PART II: Bakhtin’s Metalinguistic Theories and General Problems of Transposability to the Visual Arts
11 Introduction
12 Units of Meaning Versus Units of Grammar - Towards a Typology of Style/Genres in Visual Art
13 Thinking in Words or Images
14 Synthetic Cubism
15 Post Cubism
Afterword: A Consummation Devoutly to be Wished or Dreaded
Possible Opportunities for Further Research
Endnotes
Bibliography
Index