Moving deftly among literary and visual arts as well as the modern criticalcanon Christopher Prendergasts book explores the meaning and value ofrepresentation a... » 

Moving deftly among literary and visual arts as well as the modern criticalcanon Christopher Prendergasts book explores the meaning and value ofrepresentation as both a philosophical challenge What does it mean to createan image that stands for something absent? and a political issue Who hasthe right to represent whom?.The Triangle of Representation raises a range of theoretical historical andaesthetic questions and offers subtle readings of such cultural critics asRaymond Williams Paul de Man Edward Said Walter Benjamin and Hlne Cixousin addition to penetrating investigations of visual artists like Gros Ingresand Matisse and significant insights into Proust and the onus of translatinghim. Above all Prendergasts work is a striking display of how a firmgrounding in theory is essential for the exploration of art and literature. «