E-Books →Interdisciplinary Encounters Hidden and Visible Explorations of the Work of Adrian Rifkin

The 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.
Finally, 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.
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