Your basket is currently empty
NO JUNK book has underlining and notes in red pen, rest of bok is in brand new shape, no other marks, tears, or creases, item ships next business day in jiffy envelope. 
Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! 
Stated first paperback edition, bound in light gray pictorial wraps with yellow spine. Covers lightly worn and scuffed. Pages clean but toning from age at edges. Binding sturdy and tight. 
Informed by both structuralism and poststructuralism, these essays by art critic and historian Yve-Alain Bois seek to redefine the status of theory in modernist critical discourse. Warning against the uncritical adoption of theoretical fashions and e... 
0262521806 Good condition. May have some markings & or shelfwear. All pages intact. Used items may not include extras such as infotrac, CD or other web access codes. 
xxx, 327 pp., illus., biblio., index; 23 cm. BRAND NEW. Stimulating, intellectual essays on modern & contemporary art. Bois wrote his dissertation under Roland Barthes. "Informed by both structuralism and poststructuralism, these essays by art critic and historian Yve Alain Bois seek to redefine the status of theory in modernist critical discourse. Warning against the uncritical adoption of theoretical fashions and equally against the a priori rejection of all theory, Bois argues that theory is best employed in response to the specific demands of a critical problem. The essays lucidly demonstrate the uses of various theoretical approaches in conjunction with close reading of both paintings and texts. / Yve-Alain Bois was a founder of the French journal Macula and a Fellow at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris. He is currently Professor of the History of Art at Harvard University. "-Publisher. 
Informed by both structuralism and poststructuralism, these essays by art critic and historian Yve-Alain Bois seek to redefine the status of theory in modernist critical discourse. Warning against the uncritical adoption of theoretical fashions and equally against the a priori rejection of all theory, Bois argues in his introduction to this important first collection of his work that theory is best employed in response to the specific demands of a critical problem. ISBN10: 0262521806. 