Rediscovering Aesthetics: Transdisciplinary Voices from Art History, Philosophy, and Art Practice

'Rediscovering Aesthetics brings together prominent international voices from art history, philosophy, and artistic practice to discuss the current role of aesthetics within and across their disciplines. Following a period in which theories and histories of art, art criticism, and artistic practice seemed to focus exclusively on political, social, or empirical interpretations of art, aesthetics is being rediscovered both as a vital arena for discussion and as a valid interpretive approach outside its traditional philosophical domain. This volume is distinctive because it provides a selection of significant but divergent positions. The diversity of the views presented here demonstrates that a critical rethinking of aesthetics can be undertaken in a variety of (possibly incompatible) ways. The contributions open a transdisciplinary debate from which a new field of aesthetics may begin to emerge.' (Excerpt from book cover)

With the biographies of the contributors.

Access level

Onsite

publisher

Stanford University Press (Stanford, United States)

editor

Francis HALSALL,

Julia JANSEN,

Tony O'CONNOR

Location code

REF.HAF2

Language

English

Keyword

aesthetics, art theory

Publication/Creation date

2009

No of pages

322

ISBN / ISSN

9780804759915

No of copies

Content type

anthology

Chapter headings

(Re)Discovering Aesthetics: An Introduction - Francis HALSALL, Julia JANSEN, Tony O'CONNOR

Part 1 Aesthetics in Art History and Art Theory

1 Kunstwissenschaft versus Asthetik: The Historians' Revolt against Aesthetics - Richard WOODFIELD

2 Aesthetics and the Two Cultures: Why Art and Science Should Be Allowed to Go Their Separate Ways - James ELKINS

3 Stones of Solace - Michael Ann HOLLY

4 The Dogma of Conviction - David RASKIN

5 Sensation in the Wild: On Not Naming Newman, Judd, Riley, and Serra - Richard SHIFF

6 Kant's 'Free-Play' in the Light of Minimal Art - Thierry DE DUVE

Part II Aesthetics in Philosophy

7 The Future of Aesthetics - Arthur C. DANTO

8 Retrieving Kant's Aesthetics for Art Theory After Greenberg: Some Remarks on Arthur C. Danto and Thierry de Duve - Diarmuid COSTELLO

9 Artistic Creativity: Illusions, Realities, Futures - Paul CROWTHER

10 Gadamer and the Ambiguity of Appearance - Nicholas DAVEY

11 Modernisms and Mediations - Peter OSBORNE

12 Aesthetics Beyond Aesthetics - Wolfgang WELSCH

13 Intuition and Concrete Particularity in Kant's Transcendental Aesthetic - Adrian PIPER

Part III Aesthetics in Artistic and Curatorial Practice

14 Seasonal Fractional Political Idiosyncratic Aesthetics - Carolee SCHNEEMANN

15 Toward an Ophthalmology of the Aesthetic and an Orthopedics of Seeing - Robert MORRIS

16 The Social Turn: Collaboration and Its Discontents - Claire BISHOP

17 The Richter Effect on the Regeneration of Aesthetics - Michael KELLY

Rediscovering Aesthetics: Transdisciplinary Voices from Art History, Philosophy, and Art Practice

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