{"product_id":"9781780767024","title":"Interdisciplinary Encounters Hidden and Visible Explorations of the Work of Adrian Rifkin","description":"\u003ch3\u003eInternational Library of Visual Culture\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch1\u003eInterdisciplinary Encounters\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch2\u003eHidden and Visible Explorations of the Work of Adrian Rifkin\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch3\u003eDana Arnold\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003eLiterary Collections \/ General\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor over four decades, art historian and cultural theorist Adrian Rifkin has been producing visionary and esoteric work, influencing a variety of artists and scholars. Inspired by Rifkin's innovative work in the field, Interdisciplinary Encounters offers an exploration of the question of 'interdisciplinarity' in cultural and visual studies. In it, close readings of specific artwork engage with aspects of Rifkin's work as diverse as Parisian urban formation, queer theory, the breathless subject and the object of art history itself.  As the contributors reflect on how their own methodologies have interacted with Rifkin's, the common thread throughout these contributions becomes the interweaving of the seemingly disparate itself, both exploration and demonstration of the Rifkinian refiguring and redeployment of critical concepts within different fields of the study of culture and the visual. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe scholarly contributions range from the artefactuality of objects and the seduction of the hidden to the question of how the past is made visible to us, to the relationship between mourning, the image and writing in art criticism's 1990s turn towards the personal. Grounded in different aspects of Rifkin's writings – the relationship between art and industry, pedagogical practices, reimagining historicity – these acclaimed scholars are by turns transgressive, meditative, incisive and revolutionary in an implicit argument for the value of Rifkin to teaching and learning, thinking  and writing.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFinally, Rifkin responds in a (non-) conclusion, unfolding his own travels through Marxism, feminism, psychoanalysis and queer theory and asking what has been jettisoned along the way, deconstructing the iconography of the self and questioning what can be achieved by revisiting the fault-lines of our pasts and investigating the alternative histories of our critical selves. Interdisciplinary Encounters is a unique collaboration between the subject and object of Rifkin's groundbreaking writing, opening up new vistas of interdisciplinary interaction for researchers of art history  and cultural studies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003eDana Arnold is Professor of Architectural History and Theory at Middlesex University, London, UK. She was joint editor with Adrian Rifkin of the international journal \u003ci\u003e  Art History 1997-2002\u003c\/i\u003e  . Her monographs include: \u003ci\u003e  The Spaces of the Hospital: Spatiality and Urban Change in London\u003c\/i\u003e   (2013); \u003ci\u003e  Rural Urbanism: London landscapes in the early nineteenth century\u003c\/i\u003e   (2006);\u003ci\u003e   Reading Architectural History\u003c\/i\u003e   (2002); and \u003ci\u003e  Re-presenting the Metropolis: Architecture, Urban Experience and Social Life in London 1800-1840\u003c\/i\u003e   (2000). She is also the author of the bestselling \u003ci\u003e  Art History: A Very Short Introduction\u003c\/i\u003e   (2004) which has been translated into many languages. Her recent edited and co-edited volumes include: \u003ci\u003e  Art History: Contemporary Perspectives on Method\u003c\/i\u003e   (2010); \u003ci\u003e  Biographies and Space\u003c\/i\u003e   (2008); and \u003ci\u003e  Rethinking Architectural Historiography\u003c\/i\u003e   (2006). Her latest book \u003ci\u003e  Art: An Introduction\u003c\/i\u003e   was published by TATE in 2014.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e21 November 2014\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eI.B. 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