The postmodernist critique of representation undermines the referential status of visual imagery, its claim to represent reality as it really is - either the appearance of things or some ideal order behind or beyond appearance. — Craig Owens Copy Share Image
Representation, then, is not - nor can it be - neutral; it is an act - indeed the founding act - of power in our culture. — Craig Owens Copy Share Image
Photographs are but one link in a potentially endless chain of reduplication; themselves duplicates (of both their objects and, in a sense, their negatives),… — Craig Owens Copy Share Image
As an allegorical art, then, photography would represent our desire to fix the transitory, the ephemeral, in a stable and stabilizing image. — Craig Owens Copy Share Image
“Empty in this dirt and flat on my back both hands gripped tightly and widely around my bare neck the truth of it all… — Craig Owens Copy Share Image
The postmodernist critique of representation undermines the referential status of visual imagery, its claim to represent reality as it really is - either the… — Craig Owens Copy Share Image
Representation, then, is not - nor can it be - neutral; it is an act - indeed the founding act - of power in… — Craig Owens Copy Share Image
