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Rediscovering aesthetics : transdisciplinary voices from art history, philosophy, and art practice / edited by Francis Halsall, Julia Jansen, and Tony O'Connor.
LIBRA N66 .R44 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Aesthetics.
- Art--Philosophy.
- Art.
- Art, Modern.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 322 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, [2009]
- Summary:
- Rediscovering Aesthetics brings together prominent international voices from art history, philosophy, and artistic practice to discuss the current role of aesthetics within and across their disciplines. Following a period in which theories and histories of art, art criticism, and artistic practice seemed to focus exclusively on political, social, or empirical interpretations of art, aesthetics is being rediscovered both as a vital arena for discussion and as a valid interpretive approach outside its traditional philosophical domain. This volume is distinctive because it provides a selection of significant but divergent positions. The diversity of the views presented here demonstrates that a critical rethinking of aesthetics can be undertaken in a variety of (possibly incompatible) ways. The contributions open a transdisciplinary debate from which a new field of aesthetics may begin to emerge.
- Contents:
- (Re)discovering aesthetics : an introduction / Francis Halsall, Julia Jansen, and Tony O'Connor
- Aesthetics in art history and art theory
- Kunstwissenschaft versus ästhetik : the historians' revolt against aesthetics / Richard Woodfield
- Aesthetics and the two cultures : why art and science should be allowed to go their separate ways / James Elkins
- Stones of solace / Michael Ann Holly
- The dogma of conviction / David Raskin
- Sensation in the wild : on not naming Newman, Judd, Riley, and Serra / Richard Shiff
- Kant's "free-play" in the light of minimal art / Thierry de Duve
- Aesthetics in philosophy
- The future of aesthetics / Arthur C. Danto
- Retrieving Kant's aesthetics for art theory after Greenberg : some remarks on Arthur C. Danto and Thierry de Duve / Diarmuid Costello
- Artistic creativity : illusions, realities, futures / Paul Crowther
- Gadamer and the ambiguity of appearance / Nicholas Davey
- Modernisms and mediations / Peter Osborne
- Aesthetics beyond aesthetics / Wolfgang Welsch
- Intuition and concrete particularity in Kant's transcendental aesthetic / Adrian Piper
- Aesthetics in artistic and curatorial practice
- Seasonal fractional political idiosyncratic aesthetics / Carolee Schneemann
- Toward an ophthalmology of the aesthetic and an orthopedics of seeing / Robert Morris
- The social turn : collaboration and its discontents / Claire Bishop
- The Richter effect on the regeneration of aesthetics / Michael Kelly.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-311) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780804759908
- 0804759901
- 9780804759915
- 080475991X
- OCLC:
- 225876104
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