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Aesthetic life : the past and present of artistic cultures / Harr Redner.
LIBRA BH81 .R44 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Redner, Harry.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Aesthetics--History.
- Aesthetics.
- History.
- Aesthetics, Comparative.
- Culture--Sociological aspects.
- Culture.
- Criticism--History.
- Criticism.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 496 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, 2007.
- Summary:
- Harry Redner's Aesthetic Life examines the arts-all the arts from the earliest Paleolithic painting to the latest post-Modern music. Its aim is to account for the nature of art in its historical totality and ta assess the role it has played in human life throughout the ages. In seeking to review the history of art in all civilizations and separate cultures, this work is intensely aware of the critical state of the arts towards which this history seems to be heading. None of the great artistic cultures has survived intact as a living tradition. All have been more or less consigned to museums, the mausoleums of dead art. India, China, Japan, Byzantium, Persia, all the sources of the heritage of great art have dwindled away. The last of these, Europe, also faltered in the course of the twentieth century, which began with so much hope-it seemed for a while that the Modernist upsurge of rebellious energy was to be the first stage of a new culture. In the present anarchic age of post-Modernism, where "anything goes," it has become apparent that Modernism was merely the last stage of European culture. With all these great traditions gone, Aesthetic Life asks "What is to be done about art now?" and considers possible answers.
- Contents:
- General Introduction-The state of the arts vii
- Book I General Aesthetics or Art Theory
- Introduction-Baumgarten and aesthetics 1
- Part A Basic Aesthetic Qualities
- Chapter 1 The Aesthetic Ethos 11
- Chapter 2 Humor and Beauty 27
- Chapter 3 Form and Design 45
- Part B Mimesis and Representation
- Chapter 4 Miming and Acting 63
- Chapter 5 Images 75
- Chapter 6 Pictorial Representation 89
- Chapter 7 Literary Representation 111
- Chapter 8 Poetry and Truth 125
- Part C Expression
- Chapter 9 Dramatic Expression 139
- Chapter 10 Musical Expression 155
- Book II History of Art or Artistic Cultures
- Introduction-Hegel and history 173
- Part A Art, High Art and Great Art
- Chapter 1 Art-the constitution of the work of art 187
- Chapter 2 High art-style, genre and manner 201
- Chapter 3 Great art-universality and scope 221
- Part B Studies of the Great Art Traditions
- Chapter 4 Greece-Rome and China-Japan 231
- Chapter 5 Byzantium, India and Persia 257
- Part C The Great Art Tradition of Europe
- Chapter 6 Gothic and Classical 283
- Chapter 7 Modernity and Modernism 297
- Book III Critique of Judgement or Criticism of Criticism
- Introduction-Kant and criticism 319
- Part A The Culture of Criticism
- Chapter 1 The Rise Of Modern Criticism 335
- Chapter 2 Consensus in Judgement 351
- Part B The Nature of Criticism
- Chapter 3 Analysis 261
- Chapter 4 Interpretation 375
- Chapter 5 Evaluation 399
- Part C The Future of Criticism and Art
- Chapter 6 The Fall of Modern Criticism 415
- Chapter 7 The End of Art?-a conclusion 433.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0761836780
- 9780761836780
- 0761836772
- 9780761836773
- OCLC:
- 99996724
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