Mary Bittner Wiseman
Biographic Data
| ID | 484775 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mary Bittner Wiseman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mary Bittner |
| FAMILY NAME | Wiseman |
| SIGNATURE | WISEMAN M B |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Graduate Center, CUNY |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 30 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
A New Materialism
This essay has three parts. The first moves from what artists confronted when China was first opened to the west in 1978 to what two classical Chinese critics and artists said art was and how it was to be made. The second looks at artists’ works made between two exhibitions in the United States, one in 1998, the other in 2017, to find an uncanny reprise of the classical principles. The third looks at the ideas of the global, contemporary, and art…
Jizi and his art in contemporary China
This is a book about the journey of a man, Jizi, whose goal was to make contemporary what is authentically Chinese and to do it in a way that speaks to an increasingly global audience. The first ha
Subversive Strategies in Contemporary Chinese Art
What is art and what is its role in a China that is changing at a dizzying speed? These questions lie at the heart of Chinese contemporary art. Subversive Strategies paves the way for the rebirth of a Chinese aesthetics adequate to the art whose sheer energy and imaginative power is subverting the ideas through which western and Chinese critics think about art. The first collection of essays by American and Chinese philosophers and art historians…
Renaissance Madonnas and the Fantasies of Freud
Through the work of Julia Kristeva, this paper challenges Freud's laws that everyone is always already gendered, that the mother is feminine and every infant masculine, and that one cannot love the same (gender). The figure of the Madonna, seen through the paintings of Giovanni Bellini, is used to theorize the time in the life of a child before Oedipus and to undo the conceptual knot with which Freud has bound the feminine to the maternal
Two Women by Giovanni Bellini
Journal Article TWO WOMEN BY GIOVANNI BELLINI Get access Mary Bittner Wiseman Mary Bittner Wiseman Department of Philosophy, Brooklyn CollegeBrooklyn, New York, New York 11210, USA Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Aesthetics, Volume 33, Issue 3, July 1993, Pages 228–238, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjaesthetics/33.3.228 Published: 01 July 1993
The Ecstasies of Roland Barthes
This analysis provides a readerly writing of many of Barthes' texts, and the author aims to make Barthes accessible even to those with little experience of structuralism and semiology
The Originality of the Avant-Garde and Other Modernist Myths
The Originality of the Avant-Garde and Other Modernist Myths
Renaissance Madonnas and the Fantasies of Freud
Through the work of Julia Kristeva, this paper challenges Freud's laws that everyone is always already gendered, that the mother is feminine and every infant masculine, and that one cannot love the same (gender). The figure of the Madonna, seen through the paintings of Giovanni Bellini, is used to theorize the time in the life of a child before Oedipus and to undo the conceptual knot with which Freud has bound the feminine to the maternal
Two Women by Giovanni Bellini
Journal Article TWO WOMEN BY GIOVANNI BELLINI Get access Mary Bittner Wiseman Mary Bittner Wiseman Department of Philosophy, Brooklyn CollegeBrooklyn, New York, New York 11210, USA Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Aesthetics, Volume 33, Issue 3, July 1993, Pages 228–238, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjaesthetics/33.3.228 Published: 01 July 1993
The Originality of the Avant-Garde and Other Modernist Myths
The Ecstasies of Roland Barthes
This analysis provides a readerly writing of many of Barthes' texts, and the author aims to make Barthes accessible even to those with little experience of structuralism and semiology
Renaissance Madonnas and the Fantasies of Freud
Through the work of Julia Kristeva, this paper challenges Freud's laws that everyone is always already gendered, that the mother is feminine and every infant masculine, and that one cannot love the same (gender). The figure of the Madonna, seen through the paintings of Giovanni Bellini, is used to theorize the time in the life of a child before Oedipus and to undo the conceptual knot with which Freud has bound the feminine to the maternal
Two Women by Giovanni Bellini
Journal Article TWO WOMEN BY GIOVANNI BELLINI Get access Mary Bittner Wiseman Mary Bittner Wiseman Department of Philosophy, Brooklyn CollegeBrooklyn, New York, New York 11210, USA Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Aesthetics, Volume 33, Issue 3, July 1993, Pages 228–238, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjaesthetics/33.3.228 Published: 01 July 1993
Subversive Strategies in Contemporary Chinese Art
What is art and what is its role in a China that is changing at a dizzying speed? These questions lie at the heart of Chinese contemporary art. Subversive Strategies paves the way for the rebirth of a Chinese aesthetics adequate to the art whose sheer energy and imaginative power is subverting the ideas through which western and Chinese critics think about art. The first collection of essays by American and Chinese philosophers and art historians…
Jizi and his art in contemporary China
This is a book about the journey of a man, Jizi, whose goal was to make contemporary what is authentically Chinese and to do it in a way that speaks to an increasingly global audience. The first ha
A New Materialism
This essay has three parts. The first moves from what artists confronted when China was first opened to the west in 1978 to what two classical Chinese critics and artists said art was and how it was to be made. The second looks at artists’ works made between two exhibitions in the United States, one in 1998, the other in 2017, to find an uncanny reprise of the classical principles. The third looks at the ideas of the global, contemporary, and art…
Art (6 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Art history (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · China (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Art, Politics, and Modernism (2 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (2 works)