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Status: Published book, Volume I; first edition, 2025

Research summary

Doctrines, theories, and applications establishing the early framework of Post-Interpretive Criticism, including presence, absence, aesthetic displacement, and the ethics of critical language.

Research question: How should criticism account for the encounter with an artwork and the responsibilities of interpretation?

Approach and sources: Theoretical and doctrinal essays, preserved as the initial formulation of the framework.

Contribution: Establishes vocabulary and arguments that the current research programmes develop and critically revisit.

Scope and limits: An early foundational volume. Its declarative formulations should be read with their historical context and alongside the institute’s continuing investigations.

Publication history and rights

Original edition: First edition, 2025.

Repository release 5, 2026-04. This date and version identify the repository file rather than a new book edition. Repository-release DOI.

Rights: Rights follow the notice attached to the individual work or edition. Consult the published text or repository record.

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Dorian Vale. Post-Interpretive Criticism: Volume I - The Foundational Essays. 2025. Museum of One Press. ISBN 978-1-0698203-0-3. https://www.museumofone.art/publication-foundational-essays/

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This research summary was added on 14 October 2026 from the linked public text and bibliographic record. The complete argument, examples, and references remain in the published work and its repository edition.

Publication record

  • Order: 1
  • Form: Volume I
  • Series: Post-Interpretive Criticism
  • Edition: First edition, 2025
  • ISBN: 978-1-0698203-0-3
  • Responsibility: Dorian Vale
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About the publication

Doctrines, theories, and applications establishing the early framework. The volume develops presence, absence, aesthetic displacement, and the ethics of critical language.

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Museum of One, An Independent Research Institute for Contemporary Aesthetics. Founded in 2025 by Tarique. Dorian Vale is Tarique’s publishing name. Museum of One publishes The Journal of Post-Interpretive Criticism through Museum of One Press and maintains the Museum of One Archival Library.

Contact: research@museumofone.art