Description: If the postmodern is a collage--as some critics have suggested--or if collage is itself a kernel of the postmodern, what does this mean for our way of understanding the world? The Frame and the Mirror uses this question to probe the distinctive question of the postmodern situation and the philosophical problem of representation.
Review Quotes: "Brockelman examines cubist collage as the subject of what he terms 'a philosophical investigation of aesthetic phenomena.' To this end, he provides a critique of the theoretical texts of Karsten Harries, Gianni Vattimo, Jean-Francois Lyotard, Slavoj Zizek, and Rosalind Krauss. In addition to the collages made by Bracques, Picasso, and Schwitters, he also considers Peter Greenaway's films and two urban design proposals based on collage by Koetter and Rowe and Koolhaus." --Book News, Portland, OR