The optical unconscious
Book • 1993
Rosalind Krauss's "The Optical Unconscious" is a significant contribution to art theory, exploring the relationship between photography, psychoanalysis, and modernist art.
Krauss examines how photographic images operate on the viewer's unconscious, challenging traditional notions of representation and perception.
She draws on Lacanian psychoanalysis to analyze the ways in which images produce meaning and affect.
The book is known for its rigorous theoretical framework and its insightful analyses of specific photographic works and modernist paintings.
Krauss's work has had a lasting impact on art criticism and theory, shaping discussions about the nature of representation and the viewer's experience of art.
Krauss examines how photographic images operate on the viewer's unconscious, challenging traditional notions of representation and perception.
She draws on Lacanian psychoanalysis to analyze the ways in which images produce meaning and affect.
The book is known for its rigorous theoretical framework and its insightful analyses of specific photographic works and modernist paintings.
Krauss's work has had a lasting impact on art criticism and theory, shaping discussions about the nature of representation and the viewer's experience of art.
