Aesthetics and the work of art : Adorno, Kafka, Richter / edited by Peter de Bolla and Stefan H. Uhlig.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

De Bolla, Peter, 1957-

Uhlig, Stefan H., 1969-

Class of 1924 Book Fund.

Series:

Language, discourse, society

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arts--Philosophy.

Arts.

Aesthetics.

Physical Description:

x, 247 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : color illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.

Summary:

Ever since artworks came to be seen as aesthetic forms, there has been a tension between the theoretical structures involved in our experiences of art and those experiences themselves. That tension has commonly been most visible in the artwork itself. But do we need aesthetics to appreciate a work of art? Aesthetics and the Work of Art explores this question through dialogue with philosophical, literary and visual works that are reproduced alongside the collection's essays: Theodor W. Adorno's draft introduction to his posthumous Aesthetic Theory, Franz Kafka's story A Report to an Academy, and Gerhard Richter's painting Betty (1988). By focusing - separately or conjointly - on this shared body of work and thought, the leading voices gathered here prompt us to face the mutual dependency - and troubled interfaces - between art and thinking about art.

Contents:

Draft Introduction to Aesthetic Theory / Theodor W. Adorno

1 What Does Art Know? / Simon Jarvis 57

2 Aesthetics and the Fully Emancipated Subject: Cultures, Histories and the Fictive Imagination / Timothy J. Reiss 71

3 Beyond the Pleasure Principle: Politics in Adorno's Aesthetic Theory / Julian Roberts 92

A Report to an Academy / Franz Kafka

4 The Ape Speaks / Miguel Tamen 113

5 Kafka's Exit: Exile, Exodus and Messianism / Howard Caygill 126

6 Kafka's 'A Report to an Academy' with Adorno / Stanley Corngold 147

Betty (1988) / Gerhard Richter

7 The Matter of Memory: On Semblance and History in Richter and Adorno / Anthony J. Cascardi 169

8 Faces, Traces: Adorno, Kafka, Richter / Marc Redfield 187

9 Ecce Pinctura: A Note on Betty's Mastered Irony / Stephen Melville 214

10 Facing Betty's Turn / Peter de Bolla 222.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1924 Book Fund.

ISBN:

9780230549197

0230549195

OCLC:

234234100