ART PAPERS 10.01 - Jan/Feb 1986

This issue holds an introduction and and assessment, not only of poststructuralism, but of postmodernism and postmodernity for readers of ART PAPERS. this special issue in an attempt to provide a general overview for beginners as well as a critique for other interested persons. 

The issue includes a Lexicon and a 'guide for the perplexed'. Other articles include Some Versions of PostModernism by John Johnston, Les Immateriaux by Jean-Francois Lyotard, Squabbles of Science and Narrative: Lyotard's The Postmodern Condition by Robert Detweiler, Jean Baudrillard and the Political Economy of the Sign by Timothy Luke, Kristen's Politics: A Psychosocial Approach to Literature and Painting by Carol Bove, Matisse and the Signs by Joyce Dixon Medina and Improbable Encounter: Gadamer and Derrida by Richard A. Palmer.

The issue's highlight may well be the interview with Jacques Derrida. 

Reviews include Willy Heeks, Terence La Noue, Southern Folk Art, Cliffton Peacock, Lonnie B. Holley and Linda Bengalis.