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Aesthetic theory / edited by Dieter Mersch, Sylvia Sasse, and Sandro Zanetti ; translated by Brian Alkire.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Think art (Zurich, Switzerland)
- Think art
- Language:
- English
- Undetermined
- Subjects (All):
- Aesthetics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (273 pages) : illustrations.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Zurich : Diaphanes, [2019]
- Summary:
- Theodor Adorno's famous aesthetic theory was not merely a theory of the aesthetic; it also made a wider claim about the aesthetic implications of all theory.At the same time we have to deal with aesthetic objects and events in which an aesthetic theory is inherent, which show themselves as art.
- Contents:
- Aesthetic Theory
- Introduction
- Rock Sample: Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten
- Theory as Resonance: Denis Diderot
- Theory as Narrative: Sigmund Freud
- Auratic Theory: Walter Benjamin
- Material Aesthetics: Asger Jorn
- The Theoretical Act
- Necroperformance: Theory as Remains
- Practical Epistemology: William Kentridge
- The Formation of Cosmogonies: Camille Henrot
- Facing the Text: Julian Rosefeldt
- Aesthetic Judgment: Alexander Kluge
- Aesthetic Thinking: Art as theōria
- Shadows of Theory: Figures of Thought
- Notes on the Cover: Yuri Albert's Figurative Thinking
- List of illustrations
- About the authors.
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed November 4, 2019).
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9783035801712
- 3035801711
- OCLC:
- 1121140176
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