Midnight
The Tempest Essays
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When the art criticism become a history of the present? There is a possible answer in the writings of Molly Nesbit. In the essays in this book, she considers art seeking, not to represent reality, but rather to be grasped by its many contingencies. This means that issues of medium and form are passed over; that the monument is relegated to the past; and that critical theory no longer drives the development of the writer ́s work.