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Arthur C. Danto's essays not only critique bodies of work but reflect upon art's conceptual evolution as well, drawing for the reader a kind of "philosophical map" indicating how art and the criteria for judging it has changed over the twentieth century. In Unnatural Wonders the renowned critic finds himself at a point when contemporary art has become wholly pluralistic, even chaotic-with one medium as good as another-and when the moment for the "next...
2) What Is Art?
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While Tolstoy may be best remembered as the talented Russian author of such monumentally great works as "War and Peace" and "Anna Karenina", he also wrote prolifically in essay format on various subjects. In this volume Tolstoy turns his attention to the study of aesthetics and art in all its forms. Based on fifteen years of research, "What is Art?" is Tolstoy's intellectual exposition into answering the titular question. Rich with criticism for his...
3) Intentions
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Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (1854—1900) was an Irish poet and playwright who became one of the most popular in London during the 1880s and 1890s. Well-known for his sharp wit and extravagant attire, Wilde was a proponent of aestheticism and wrote in a variety of forms including poetry, fiction, and drama. He was famously imprisoned for homosexual acts from 1895 to 1897 and died at the age of 46, just three years after his release. Although...
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It is remarkably appropriate that this work on aesthetics should have been written by George Santayana, who is probably the most brilliant philosophic writer and the philosopher with the strongest sense of beauty since Plato. It is not a dry metaphysical treatise, as works on aesthetics so often are, but is itself a fascinating document: as much a revelation of the beauty of language as of the concept of beauty.
This unabridged reproduction of the...
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Public space is political space. When a work of public art is put up or taken down, it is an inherently political statement, and the work's aesthetics are inextricably entwined with its political valences. Democracy's openness allows public art to explore its values critically and to suggest new ones. However, it also facilitates artworks that can surreptitiously or fortuitously undermine democratic values. Today, as bigotry and authoritarianism are...
6) Andy Warhol
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Art critic, philosopher, and winner of a National Book Critics Circle Award Arthur Danto delivers a compact, masterful tour of Andy Warhol's personal, artistic, and philosophical transformations. Danto traces the evolution of the pop artist, including his early reception, relationships with artists such as Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg, and the Factory phenomenon. He offers close readings of individual Warhol works, including their social context...
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Althusser and Art offers a reading of Althusserianism as, a meta-mediation on the question concerning the aesthetics of theory. Fardy shows that Althusserian theory is part of a larger genealogy of thought, stretching from Korsch through Laruelle, that has been, primarily concerned with the search for a form of theory, an aesthetic of theorizing, capable of transcending the theory, practice dialectic.
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¿Puede el arte ser utilizado para desplegar la crítica social? Esta es la pregunta que guía las reflexiones del presente libro, dirigido a personas interesadas en la estética, la filosofía o las ciencias sociales. En la primera parte de esta obra se explican sus hitos más destacados, entre los que se encuentran K. Marx, S. Kracauer, W. Benjamin, M. Horkheimer, T. W. Adorno y J. Habermas. En la segunda parte, centrada en la formulación de la...
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Los ensayos recogidos en el presente volumen reflexionan sobre el valor del arte desde diferentes perspectivas. En primer lugar, se interrogan sobre la existencia de un valor específico del trabajo artístico y las obras de arte. En particular, algunos textos abordan la cuestión central del valor estético y de su conexión con la interpretación, la apreciación y el juicio de las obras de arte. En segundo lugar, ocupa un espacio central del libro...
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Este texto sobre la estética del objeto doméstico pretende la construcción de muchos posibles puntos de partida en la formación de criterios que permitan abordar y entender el objeto doméstico, llamado aquí también útil o producto doméstico, desde una metodología abierta y holística, resultado de una cultura material que define al ser humano en un contexto histórico, social y temporal, rastreable por medio de la técnica, la creación...
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Tras un primer capítulo en el que plantea los problemas fundamentales del arte contemporáneo teniendo en cuenta las reflexiones de Benjamin, Adorno y Greenberg, así como los cambios habidos en la industria de la cultura y la comunicación, en la tecnología y el mercado, Di Giacomo traza las líneas fundamentales del arte contemporáneo a partir del desarrollo de la vanguardia, el cubismo, las obras de Braque y Picasso, la ruptura radical que supone...
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Este libro ofrece una reflexión en torno a la artesanía a partir de sus propios referentes, esto es, la vida cotidiana del hombre inmersa en la cultura y el territorio. Aquí el problema estético es abordado de manera positiva e interdisciplinar, ya que por su carácter cultural es necesario detallar los aportes hechos desde las diferentes ciencias humanas, y postular preguntas que no se generan en estas ciencias. Así mismo, se plantea la idea...
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Este libro ofrece una teoría de la estética poshumana en los paisajes de información mediados por procesos computacionales. A partir de innovaciones científicas, tecnológicas y conceptuales, se investiga la transformación que ha tenido la estética hacia una visión poshumana en la que se vincula lo humano y lo no humano a través de la relación con otros animales, plantas y sistemas maquinicos. En estética poshumana, se reconocen otros sistemas...
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A Western Marxist reading of contemporary art, focusing on the question of the continued presence (or absence) of the avant-garde's transgressive impulse.
Taking art's ability to contribute to radical social transformation as its point of departure, Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen's new title from Zero Books analyses the relationship between the current neoliberal hegemony and contemporary art, including relational aesthetics and interventionist art, new institutionalism...
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There are many ways to approach the subject of public space: the threats posed to it by surveillance and visual pollution; the joys it offers of stimulation and excitement, of anonymity and transformation; its importance to urban variety or democratic politics. But public space remains an evanescent and multidimensional concept that too often escapes scrutiny. The essays in Rites of Way: The Politics and Poetics of Public Space open up multiple dimensions...
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The twenty-first century has witnessed a pervasive militarization of aesthetics with Western military institutions co-opting the creative worldmaking of art and merging it with the destructive forces of warfare.
In “Martial Aesthetics”, Anders Engberg-Pedersen examines the origins of this unlikely merger, showing that today's creative warfare is merely the extension of a historical development that began long ago. Indeed, the emergence of martial...
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This early work by Robin G. Collingwood was originally published in 1923 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'The Principles of Art' is an academic work on the philosophy of art. Robin George Collingwood was born on 22nd February 1889, in Cartmel, England. He was the son of author, artist, and academic, W. G. Collingwood. He was greatly influenced by the Italian Idealists Croce, Gentile, and Guido de Ruggiero. Another...
18) El genio
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Moretti estudia la condición del genio de modo original y minucioso en el ámbito de la relación existente entre el poeta y el artista con la naturaleza. Surgen aquí las principales preguntas y los problemas más complejos, pues el genio afirma su condición subjetiva, su "fuerza", su excepcionalidad y prescinde de las reglas que habitual y clásicamente se aplican a la representación-imitación de la naturaleza. El genio sustituye la verdad conceptual...
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Instead of treating art as a unique creation that requires reason and refined taste to appreciate, Elizabeth Grosz argues that art-especially architecture, music, and painting-is born from the disruptive forces of sexual selection. She approaches art as a form of erotic expression connecting sensory richness with primal desire, and in doing so, finds that the meaning of art comes from the intensities and sensations it inspires, not just its intention...
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La interacción entre seres vivos y sistemas artificiales produce nuevos conjuntos sociales a niveles algorítmicos, con códigos computacionales y redes, que, desde la perspectiva de la ecopolítica de la información, amplían las nociones de vida y de ser. Por esto, han emergido esquemas de pensamiento que van más allá de lo biofísico y lo digital, que abren campos de conocimiento, que superan los registros biológicos de los seres vivos y que...
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