Table of Contents

Contents Introduction: Heidegger Reframed? Chapter 1: Art and the Everyday Chapter 2: Art, Art Business and the Work of Art Chapter 3: Representation Chapter 4: Art and Technology Chapter 5: Praxical Knowledge Chapter 6: The Artist and the Posthuman World? Chapter 7: From Aesthetics to Ethics Chapter 8: Art as Research Conclusion References Glossary

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Grounds Heidegger's writings in the critical questions confronting contemporary visual artists and students of art. Barbara Bolt takes the most relevant of his texts, including his most famous work, 'Being and Time', and sets out ways of thinking about art in a post-medium, digital, technocratic and post-human age.

About the Author

Barbara Bolt lectures at the Victorian College of the Arts at the University of Melbourne, Australia. She is a practising artist and her publications include Art Beyond Representation: The Performative Power of the Image (2004) and Practice as Research: Approaches to Creative Arts Enquiry (edited with Estelle Barrett, I.B.Tauris, 2007, paperback 2010).