The Art of Interference

by Mary Ann Caws

Book Overview

"Having the freedom of our perceptual conviction," writes Mary Ann Caws, "would mean the ability at once to challenge institutional presentations and individual visions and to invent our own fictions of seeing." In "The Art of Interference" Caws argues for a "personally passionate criticism," emphasizing that reading texts of literature and visual art can never be a fixed and closed process. She addresses the issues of how to look for, read, and know...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691014787
• ISBN13: 9780691014784
• Release Date: December 1989
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 341 Pages
• Weight: 2.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"