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The future of art : an aesthetics of the new and the sublime / Marcella Tarozzi Goldsmith.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tarozzi Goldsmith, Marcella, 1943-
- Series:
- SUNY series in aesthetics and the philosophy of art
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Aesthetics.
- Art--Philosophy.
- Art.
- Physical Description:
- 220 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, 1999.
- Summary:
- By analyzing the three loci of aesthetics -- the subjective, the objective, and the absolute -- the author concludes that only the sublime demonstrates that art is neither subjective nor objective. The one essential component of art is the new, the sole "instrument" that can guarantee art's vitality even when confronted by the nihilistic tendencies of modernity.
- Contents:
- Part 1 The Historical side of Aesthetics
- Chapter 1 The Birth of Aesthetics 3
- Art on the Offensive
- The Role of Imagination
- Self-transcendence
- Desire's Ignorance
- Faust, Never Lost in Desire
- Desiring the Will
- The Despairing Will
- Chapter 2 Art as the Organon of Philosophy 33
- Real/Ideal
- Salvific Intuition
- Myths versus Mysticism
- After Schelling
- Prosaic Myths
- Art's Futurity
- The Necessity of Art
- Chapter 3 Philosophy as the Organon of Art 51
- Sic Transit
- Hegel's Triptychs
- Beauty Surpassed
- The Ultimate Rationality
- Myths and the Symbol
- The Symbolic Sublime
- The Circle
- Part 2 Art's New Truth
- Chapter 4 Apprehending the New 71
- The Subject Transformed
- The Hidden Truth
- Philosophic Art and Aesthetics
- The Emerging Meaning
- The Function of Art
- Neutrality
- Art as the Organon of Art
- Chapter 5 From Artifice to the Will 101
- Art Uprooted from Truth
- Nietzsche's Appearance
- Expected Tragedies
- Rhetoric First
- Being and Art: The Axis Nietzsche-Heidegger
- Art: The Truth of the Nonexistent
- The Sublimity of Nihilism
- Chapter 6 The Nothingness of Art 131
- The Repercussions of Nihilism
- Utopia and Nihilism: The Two Faces of the Aesthetic
- Renouncing the Beautiful
- Unprecedented Form
- Metaphor
- Sublime Allegory
- The Aesthetics of Negativity
- Part 3 Subjective Aesthetics
- Chapter 7 The Role of Subjectivity 163
- Art: Imagining the True
- New Sensations
- Hermeneutics
- The Unconscious Subject
- The Ineffable
- Tragedy and Comedy
- Sublime Sublimity.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0791443159
- 0791443167
- OCLC:
- 40562282
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