In praise of nonsense : aesthetics, uncertainty, and postmodern identity /

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Author / Creator:	Hiebert, Ted.
Imprint:	Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2012.
Description:	1 online resource (viii, 236 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Subject:	Aesthetics. Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) Imagination. Postmodernism. Uncertainty. Aesthetics. Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) Imagination. Postmodernism. Uncertainty. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11159489

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ISBN:	9780773587335 0773587330 0773539735 0773539743 9780773539730 9780773539747
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	Annotation Mobilising an array of scholars and contemporary artists, this study examines postmodern thinking through the lenses of identity and visual culture. Always creative in its approach, it focuses on theories of disappearance, irony, and nonsense, where the pleasures of the imaginary give rise to artistic inspiration.
Other form:	Print version: Parcell, Stephen. In Praise of Nonsense : Aesthetics, Uncertainty, and Postmodern Identity. Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2014

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