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Art And Its Discontents
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Author : Richard Read
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002
Art And Its Discontents written by Richard Read and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Art criticism categories.
Adrian Stokes is considered to have been one of the most original English art critics of the 20th century. This study traces his development as a critic mainly up to his early reviews of Hepworth, Nicholson and Moore.
Aesthetics And Its Discontents
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Author : Jacques Rancière
language : en
Publisher: Polity
Release Date : 2009-08-17
Aesthetics And Its Discontents written by Jacques Rancière and has been published by Polity this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-08-17 with Philosophy categories.
Translated by Steven Corcoran Only yesterday aesthetics stood accused of concealing cultural games of social distinction. Now it is considered a parasitic discourse from which artistic practices must be freed. But aesthetics is not a discourse. It is an historical regime of the identification of art. This regime is paradoxical, because it founds the autonomy of art only at the price of suppressing the boundaries separating its practices and its objects from those of everyday life and of making free aesthetic play into the promise of a new revolution. Aesthetics is not a politics by accident but in essence. But this politics operates in the unresolved tension between two opposed forms of politics: the first consists in transforming art into forms of collective life, the second in preserving from all forms of militant or commercial compromise the autonomy that makes it a promise of emancipation. This constitutive tension sheds light on the paradoxes and transformations of critical art. It also makes it possible to understand why today?s calls to free art from aesthetics are misguided and lead to a smothering of both aesthetics and politics in ethics.
Romanticism And Its Discontents
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Author : Anita Brookner
language : en
Publisher: Viking Canada
Release Date : 2000
Romanticism And Its Discontents written by Anita Brookner and has been published by Viking Canada this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Painting, French categories.
In this work, the author has written her first book on art history for many years. She examines the works and lives of eight 10th century painters and writers.
Deaccessioning And Its Discontents
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Author : Martin Gammon
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2018-07-24
Deaccessioning And Its Discontents written by Martin Gammon and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-07-24 with Art categories.
The first history of the deaccession of objects from museum collections that defends deaccession as an essential component of museum practice. Museums often stir controversy when they deaccession works—formally remove objects from permanent collections—with some critics accusing them of betraying civic virtue and the public trust. In fact, Martin Gammon argues in Deaccessioning and Its Discontents, deaccession has been an essential component of the museum experiment for centuries. Gammon offers the first critical history of deaccessioning by museums from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century, and exposes the hyperbolic extremes of “deaccession denial”—the assumption that deaccession is always wrong—and “deaccession apology”—when museums justify deaccession by finding some fault in the object—as symptoms of the same misunderstanding of the role of deaccessions in proper museum practice. He chronicles a series of deaccession events in Britain and the United States that range from the disastrous to the beneficial, and proposes a typology of principles to guide future deaccessions. Gammon describes the liquidation of the British Royal Collections after Charles I's execution—when masterworks were used as barter to pay the king's unpaid bills—as establishing a precedent for future deaccessions. He recounts, among other episodes, U.S. Civil War veterans who tried to reclaim their severed limbs from museum displays; the 1972 “Hoving affair,” when the Metropolitan Museum of Art sold a number of works to pay for a Velázquez portrait; and Brandeis University's decision (later reversed) to close its Rose Art Museum and sell its entire collection of contemporary art. An appendix provides the first extensive listing of notable deaccessions since the seventeenth century. Gammon ultimately argues that vibrant museums must evolve, embracing change, loss, and reinvention.
Master Narratives And Their Discontents
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Author : James Elkins
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-10-18
Master Narratives And Their Discontents written by James Elkins and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-18 with Art categories.
In this bracing engagement with the many versions of art history, James Elkins argues that the story of modernism and postmodernism is almost always told in terms of four narratives. Works of art are either seen as modern or postmodern, or praised for their technical skill or because of the politics they appear to embody. These are master narratives of contemporary criticism, and each leads to a different understanding of what art is and does. Both a cogent overview of the state of thinking about art and a challenge to think outside the art historical box, Master Narratives and their Discontents is the first volume in a series of short books on the theories of modernism by leading art historians on twentieth-century art and art criticism.
Late Style And Its Discontents
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Author : Gordon McMullan
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2016
Late Style And Its Discontents written by Gordon McMullan and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with Art categories.
"Late style" is a critical term routinely deployed to characterise the work of selected authors, composers, and creative artists as they enter their last phase of production--often, but not only, in old age. Taken at face value, this terminology merely points to a chronological division in the artist's oeuvre, "late" being the antonym of "early" or the third term in the triad "early-middle-late." However, almost from its inception, the idea of late style or late work has been freighted with aesthetic associations and expectations that promote it as a special episode in the artist's creative life. Late style is often characterized as the imaginative response made by exceptional talents to the imminence of their death. In their confrontation with death creative artists, critics claim, produce work that is by turns a determination to continue while strength remains, a summation of their life's work and a radical vision of the essence of their craft. And because this creative phenomenon is understood as primarily an existential response to a common fate, so late style is understood as something that transcends the particularities of place, time and medium. Critics seeking to understand late work regularly invoke the examples of Titian, Goethe, and Beethoven as exemplars of what constitutes late work, proposing that something unites the late style of authors, composers, and creative artists who otherwise would not be bracketed together and that lateness per se is a special order of creative work. The essays in this collection resist this position. Ranging across literature, the visual arts, music, and scientific work, the material assembled here looks closely at the material, biographical and other contexts in which the work was produced and seeks both to question the assumptions surrounding late style and to prompt a more critical understanding of the last works of writers, artists and composers.
Art Discontent
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Author : Thomas McEvilley
language : en
Publisher: Documentext
Release Date : 1991
Art Discontent written by Thomas McEvilley and has been published by Documentext this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Art categories.
‹€‹In these six essays, Thomas McEvilley tackles the aesthetics of formalism and proceeds to shed new light on the roots of Modernism and the collapse of the idea of history. The world-renowned critic confronts the ideas and philosophies which for two centuries have exalted art above constructive involvement in the world, and proposes a new vision for the critical enterprise. By explaining why our Modernism was not unique and why it is being superseded, McEvilley suggests functions that art performs in a post-Modern culture and offers compelling reasons why the history of art needs to be rewritten from an altered perspective. McEvilley argues, for example, against the dominant theoretical position which removed art from contextual examination by declaring its "sublime" nature somehow elevated above ordinary life, and he goes on to effectively destroy the notion that Modernism in the larger sense is an example of the superiority of technological society. More than anything else, however, he breathes real life into the intellectual understanding of contemporary art in a way that no critic has since perhaps Herbert Read. McEvilley humanizes the undertaking; in addition his wit is evident throughout. Chapters include "Heads It's Form, Tails It's Not Content," "On the Manner of Addressing Clouds," and "The Opposite of Emptiness."
Creativity And Its Discontents
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Author : Laikwan Pang
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2012
Creativity And Its Discontents written by Laikwan Pang and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Business & Economics categories.
Laikwan Pang offers a complex critical analysis of creativity, creative industries, and the impact of Western copyright laws on creativity in China.
Civilization And Its Discontents
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Author : Sigmund Freud
language : en
Publisher: Courier Dover Publications
Release Date : 1994-01-01
Civilization And Its Discontents written by Sigmund Freud and has been published by Courier Dover Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994-01-01 with Psychology categories.
(Dover thrift editions).
Barbarism And Its Discontents
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Author : Maria Boletsi
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 2013-01-30
Barbarism And Its Discontents written by Maria Boletsi and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-01-30 with Literary Criticism categories.
Barbarism and civilization form one of the oldest and most rigid oppositions in Western history. According to this dichotomy, barbarism functions as the negative standard through which "civilization" fosters its self-definition and superiority by labeling others "barbarians." Since the 1990s, and especially since 9/11, these terms have become increasingly popular in Western political and cultural rhetoric—a rhetoric that divides the world into forces of good and evil. This study intervenes in this recent trend and interrogates contemporary and historical uses of barbarism, arguing that barbarism also has a disruptive, insurgent potential. Boletsi recasts barbarism as a productive concept, finding that it is a common thread in works of literature, art, and theory. By dislodging barbarism from its conventional contexts, this book reclaims barbarism's edge and proposes it as a useful theoretical tool.