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Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art ›› 2017, Vol. 37 ›› Issue (1): 143-151.

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The Philosophical Art Criticism of Rosalind Krauss

Zhou Wenji    

  1. the Department of Film & TV Arts at School of Film and Television Art and Technology, Shanghai University (Shanghai 200444, China)
  • Online:2017-01-25 Published:2017-11-11
  • About author:Zhou Wenji is an assistant professor in the Department of Film & TV Arts at School of Film and Television Art and Technology, Shanghai University (Shanghai 200444, China), majoring in Comparative Literature, and her research interests cover art theory and film study.

Abstract: As a well-known American art critic and art theorist, Rosalind Krauss established her own criticism style from the perspective of structuralism and post-structuralism, drawing on Saussure's ideas, semiology, psychoanalysis and various theories to take a philosophical art criticism on modern and postmodern art. This paper explores her particularly philosophical idea about the theory of grid and the formless while reviewing her philosophical art criticism, and therefore it presents the cultural logic behind modernist myths and essential postmodernism ideas. Hence, through philosophical art criticism, Krauss went through the change from the formalism to post-formalism during the course of unveiling the modernist idea.

Key words: structuralism, post-structuralism, modernist myths, grid, formless