Author: Lascelles AbercrombiePublisher:
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Category : Aesthetics
Languages : en
Pages : 128
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An Essay Towards a Theory of Art
Author: Lascelles AbercrombiePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aesthetics
Languages : en
Pages : 128
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An Essay Towards the Theory of the Ideal Or Intelligible World. Design'd for Two Parts
Author: John NorrisToward a Psychology of Art
Author: Rudolf ArnheimPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520266013
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Psychology.
The Transfiguration of the Commonplace
Author: Arthur C. DantoPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674903463
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Danto argues that recent developments in art--in particular the production of works that cannot be told from ordinary things--make urgent the need for a new theory of art. He demonstrates the relationship between philosophy and art and the connections that hold between art, social institutions, and art history.
An essay towards the theory of the ideal or intelligible world
Author: John NorrisPublisher: Georg Olms Verlag
ISBN: 9783487405001
Category : God
Languages : en
Pages : 1106
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A Dialectic of Centuries
Author: Dick HigginsPublisher: Australian Geographic
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 196
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Nation
Author: The Scent of Time
Author: Byung-Chul HanPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1509516085
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
In his philosophical reflections on the art of lingering, acclaimed cultural theorist Byung-Chul Han argues that the value we attach today to the vita activa is producing a crisis in our sense of time. Our attachment to the vita activa creates an imperative to work which degrades the human being into a labouring animal, an animal laborans. At the same time, the hyperactivity which characterizes our daily routines robs human beings of the capacity to linger and the faculty of contemplation. It therefore becomes impossible to experience time as fulfilling. Drawing on a range of thinkers including Heidegger, Nietzsche and Arendt, Han argues that we can overcome this temporal crisis only by revitalizing the vita contemplativa and relearning the art of lingering. For what distinguishes humans from other animals is the capacity for reflection and contemplation, and when life regains this capacity, this art of lingering, it gains in time and space, in duration and vastness.
Dialectical Passions
Author: Gail DayPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 023152062X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
Representing a new generation of theorists reaffirming the radical dimensions of art, Gail Day launches a bold critique of late twentieth-century art theory and its often reductive analysis of cultural objects. Exploring core debates in discourses on art, from the New Left to theories of "critical postmodernism" and beyond, Day counters the belief that recent tendencies in art fail to be adequately critical. She also challenges the political inertia that results from these conclusions. Day organizes her defense around critics who have engaged substantively with emancipatory thought and social process: T. J. Clark, Manfredo Tafuri, Fredric Jameson, Benjamin H. D. Buchloh, and Hal Foster, among others. She maps the tension between radical dialectics and left nihilism and assesses the interpretation and internalization of negation in art theory. Chapters confront the claim that exchange and equivalence have subsumed the use value of cultural objects and with it critical distance and interrogate the proposition of completed nihilism and the metropolis put forward in the politics of Italian operaismo. Day covers the debates on symbol and allegory waged within the context of 1980s art and their relation to the writings of Walter Benjamin and Paul de Man. She also examines common conceptions of mediation, totality, negation, and the politics of anticipation. A necessary unsettling of received wisdoms, Dialectical Passions recasts emancipatory reflection in aesthetics, art, and architecture.
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