Image and the Intrusion of Antinarrative: Rosalind Krauss' Structuralist Criticism

Abstract

Abstract: During the late 70's to 80's in the last century, Rosalind Krauss had a structuralist turn of mind which had brought image into "structural" system, and she emphasized the difference and the synchronicity within formal system of images. Her discussions were quite distinct from the modernist narratives of Clement Greenberg, extending to the field of postmodernism. Krauss tried to detach image from the concepts such as "intention", "origin" and "authorship" so as to promote the status of structuralism criticism. If Krauss' research is viewed not from the essentialist perspective that views antinarrative to be a kind of narrative, Krauss' approach of criticism may exhibit some value in the consciousness of historical instant.

Key words: structuralism, antinarrative, postmodernism, Rosalind Krauss

Shen Yubing, Tao Zheng. Image and the Intrusion of Antinarrative: Rosalind Krauss' Structuralist Criticism[J]. Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art, 2015, 35(2): 17-24.

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