The Aesthetic Theories of French Artists
Author : Charles Edward Gauss
Publisher :
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 13,52 MB
Release : 1966
Category : Aesthetics
ISBN :
Author : Charles Edward Gauss
Publisher :
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 13,52 MB
Release : 1966
Category : Aesthetics
ISBN :
Author : Charles Edward Gauss
Publisher :
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 50,24 MB
Release : 1949
Category : Aesthetics
ISBN :
Author : Charles Edward Gauss
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 18,33 MB
Release : 1966
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780801802164
Author : Jacques Rancière
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 32,14 MB
Release : 2013-05-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1780936877
The Politics of Aesthetics rethinks the relationship between art and politics, reclaiming "aesthetics" from the narrow confines it is often reduced to. Jacques Rancière reveals its intrinsic link to politics by analysing what they both have in common: the delimitation of the visible and the invisible, the audible and the inaudible, the thinkable and the unthinkable, the possible and the impossible. Presented as a set of inter-linked interviews, The Politics of Aesthetics provides the most comprehensive introduction to Rancière's work to date, ranging across the history of art and politics from the Greek polis to the aesthetic revolution of the modern age. Available now in the Bloomsbury Revelations series 10 years after its original publication, The Politics of Aesthetics includes an afterword by Slavoj Zizek, an interview for the English edition, a glossary of technical terms and an extensive bibliography.
Author : Henri Dorra
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 45,66 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780520077683
Presents the development and the aesthetic theories of the symbolist movement in art and literature
Author : Henry Staten
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 35,68 MB
Release : 2019-02-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1472592913
Only since the Romantic period has art been understood in terms of an ineffable aesthetic quality of things like poems, paintings, and sculptures, and the art-maker as endowed with an inexplicable power of creation. From the Greeks to the 18th century, art was conceived as techne--the skill and know-how by which things and states of affairs are ordered. Techne Theory shows how to use this concept to cut through the Romantic notion of art as a kind of magic by returning to the original sense of art as techne, the standpoint of the person who actually knows how to make a work of art. Understood as techne, art-making, like all other cultural accomplishments, is a form of work performed by an artisan who has inherited the know-how of previous generations of artisans. Along the way, Techne Theory cuts through the humanist-structuralist impasse over the question of artistic agency and explains what 'form' really means.
Author : Nicolas Bourriaud
Publisher : Les presses du réel
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 12,22 MB
Release : 2020-09-09
Category : Art
ISBN : 2378963718
Art as a set of practices which take as their theoretical and practical point of departure the whole of human relations and their social context: the manifesto that has renewed the approach of contemporary art since the 1990s. Where does our current obsession for interactivity stem from? After the consumer society and the communication era, does art still contribute to the emergence of a rational society? Nicolas Bourriaud attempts to renew our approach towards contemporary art by getting as close as possible to the artists' works, and by revealing the principles that structure their thoughts: an aesthetic of the inter-human, of the encounter; of proximity, of resisting social formatting. The aim of his essay is to produce the tools to enable us to understand the evolution of today's art. We meet Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Louis Althusser, Rirkrit Tiravanija or Félix Guattari, along with most of today's practising creative personalities.
Author : Roger Benjamin
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 27,15 MB
Release : 2003-02-03
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0520924401
Lavishly illustrated with exotic images ranging from Renoir's forgotten Algerian oeuvre to the abstract vision of Matisse's Morocco and beyond, this book is the first history of Orientalist art during the period of high modernism. Roger Benjamin, drawing on a decade of research in untapped archives, introduces many unfamiliar paintings, posters, miniatures, and panoramas and discovers an art movement closely bound to French colonial expansion. Orientalist Aesthetics approaches the visual culture of exoticism by ranging across the decorative arts, colonial museums, traveling scholarships, and art criticism in the Salons of Paris and Algiers. Benjamin's rediscovery of the important Society of French Orientalist Painters provides a critical context for understanding a lush body of work, including that of indigenous Algerian artists never before discussed in English. The painter-critic Eugène Fromentin tackled the unfamiliar atmospheric conditions of the desert, Etienne Dinet sought a more truthful mode of ethnographic painting by converting to Islam, and Mohammed Racim melded the Persian miniature with Western perspective. Benjamin considers armchair Orientalists concocting dreams from studio bric-à-brac, naturalists who spent years living in the oases of the Sahara, and Fauve and Cubist travelers who transposed the discoveries of the Parisian Salons to create decors of indigenous figures and tropical plants. The network that linked these artists with writers and museum curators was influenced by a complex web of tourism, rapid travel across the Mediterranean, and the march of modernity into a colonized culture. Orientalist Aesthetics shows how colonial policy affected aesthetics, how Europeans visualized cultural difference, and how indigenous artists in turn manipulated Western visual languages.
Author : Herschel Browning Chipp
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 692 pages
File Size : 15,40 MB
Release : 1968
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780520014503
Author : Paul Mattick
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 26,86 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780415239202
This is an exciting exploration of the role art plays in our lives. Mattick takes the question "What is art?" as a basis for a discussion of the nature of art, he asks what meaning art can have and to whom in the present order.