Download or read book Dialectical Passions written by Gail Day and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2010-12-05 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring core debates in discourses on art, from the New Left to theories of 'critical postmodernism' and beyond, Day counters the belief that recent tendencies in art fail to be adequately critical and challenges the political inertia that results from these conclusions.