Aesthetics of discomfort : conversations on disquieting art / Frederick Luis Aldama and Herbert Lindenberger.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Aldama, Frederick Luis, 1969-

Contributor:

Lindenberger, Herbert, 1929-2018.

Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan), publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art--Philosophy.

Art.

Aesthetics.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2016]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Through a series of provocative conversations, Frederick Luis Aldama and Herbert Lindenberger-who have written widely on literature, film, music, and art-locate a place for the discomforting and the often painfully unpleasant within aesthetics. The conversational format allows them to travel informally across many centuries and many art forms. They have much to tell one another about the arts since the advent of modernism soon after 1900-the nontonal music, for example, of the Second Vienna School, the chance-directed music and dance of John Cage and Merce Cunningham, the in-your-faceness of such diverse visual artists as Francis Bacon, Pablo Picasso, Willem de Kooning, Egon Schiele, Otto Dix, and Damien Hirst. They demonstrate as well a long tradition of discomforting art stretching back many centuries, for example, in the Last Judgments of innumerable Renaissance painters, in Goya's so-called "black" paintings, in Wagner's Tristan chord, and in the subtexts of Shakespearean works such as King Lear and Othello. This book is addressed at once to scholars of literature, art history, musicology, and cinema. Although its conversational format eschews the standard conventions of scholarly argument, it provides original insights both into particular art forms and into individual works within these forms. Among other matters, it demonstrates how recent work in neuroscience may provide insights in the ways that consumers process difficult and discomforting works of art. The book also contributes to current aesthetic theory by charting the dialogue that goes on-especially in aesthetically challenging works-between creator, artifact, and consumer. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Digging Deeper at a Possible Theory for an Aesthetics of Discomfort 16

2 Bottoms Up 43

3 Awkward Spaces 58

4 Noise to the Ears 93

5 Retchful Art 117

6 Revolting Reels 155.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on information from the publisher.

ISBN:

9780472073009

0472073001

9780472053001

0472053000

9780472121632

0472121634

Publisher Number:

10.3998/mpub.8284947

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.