Critical Dictionary

'Critical Dictionary is an ambitious cornucopia of thoughts, images, and illustrations from online art magazine criticaldictionary.com. Inspired by Georges Bataille’s critical dictionary, the project strives to declassify terms in a playful manner emphasising the open-ended, the provisional and the unfinished nature of language.
The title alludes to the mock dictionary that Georges Bataille edited for Documents in 1929 and 1930. Like its famous precedent from Georges Bataille, Critical Dictionary aims to puncture pretension, bringing words and their referents down to earth using a playful manner to declassify or undefine terms. Abandoning the conventional approach of dictionaries and their solely supportive use of imagery, Critical Dictionary allows images to act progressively and many of the entries are illustrated by several examples leading to an evolving discussion on interpretation.' - from publisher's website

With contributors' biographies, bibliography and list of works.

Access level

Onsite

publisher

Black Dog Publishing (London, United Kingdom)

editor

David EVANS

Location code

REF.EVD

Language

English

Publication/Creation date

2011

No of pages

188

ISBN / ISSN

9781907317491

No of copies

Content type

dictionary/encyclopedia

Chapter headings

Algeria

Appropriation

Bed

Border

Cartography

Civilisation

Comm(e)unism

Dangerous Moment

Détournement

Error

Family Album

Forest

Ghost Image

Human Writes

Humve(il)

Informe

Jewellery

Kanak

Labour

Metaphor

Monument

Mycelium

Nowhere

Ostranenie

Overt Research

Panegyric

Photography

Quotation

Red House

Rend

Retort

Rotten Sun

Spectre

Stone Breakers

Surrealism

Television

Thing

Touch

Umfunktionierung

Variable Capital

Vers une Architecture

Voice

Volk

Walk

Whippet

Window

Work of Art

XXX

YouTube

Citation

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