Aesthetics After Modernism

AvDiarmuid Costello

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

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Beskrivning

Aesthetics after Modernism defends the ongoing relevance of aesthetics to art after modernism. Diarmuid Costello traces the art world's rejection of aesthetics to Clement Greenberg's success in co-opting the discourse of aesthetics, notably Kant's aesthetics, to underwrite a formalist theory of aesthetic value. This has led to Kant's aesthetics being tarred with the brush of Greenbergian formalism; it has also encouraged subsequent critics and theorists to miss the resources in Kant's aesthetics for capturing our cognitive relation to precisely the kinds of art that interest them. There is a tendency to assume that Kant's aesthetics cannot speak to the more cognitive aspects of our engagement with art. Costello offers an interpretation of Kant's aesthetics, grounded in his theory of art, that aims to show otherwise. Conceptual Art provides an instructive test case: here is an art that, at least in its more purist forms, claimed to forgo sensible properties altogether, in favour of direct engagement with ideas. But if Kant's aesthetics can be shown to accommodate our cognitive relation to works with no sensible features relevant to their appreciation, it should be able to accommodate any work of art. Aesthetics after Modernism proceeds in three steps: Part I sets out the internal structure of Greenbergian theory, focusing on the relation between his modernism and formalism, before critiquing each in turn. Part II unpacks the afterlife of Greenbergian theory by considering one sympathetic and one antipathetic response to his modernism and formalism in turn: Michael Fried and Rosalind Krauss for the former, Thierry de Duve and Arthur C. Danto for the latter. Part III returns to Kant's aesthetics, demonstrating that Kant's account of art as an 'expression of aesthetic ideas' is well placed to address the semantic content of genres such as Conceptual Art more commonly thought to exceed its grasp.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2024-12-23
Mått:152 x 224 x 27 mm
Vikt:590 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Thinking Art
Antal sidor:320
Förlag:OUP USA
ISBN:9780197756393

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Diarmuid Costello is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Warwick. He is the author of On Photography: A Philosophical Inquiry (Routledge, 2018) and numerous articles and edited collections across aesthetics and art theory. He has particular interests in Kant and the philosophy of photography and contemporary art. He is a previous Chair of the British Society of Aesthetics, and a past recipient of the AHRC Major Research Award, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation 'Experienced Researcher' fellowship, and the Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellowship. His next book, a collection of stand-alone essays pairing individual artworks with particular philosophical concepts, models a new way of doing the philosophy of contemporary art.

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction Part I Greenberg's Modernist Aesthetic Chapter 1: Modernism and Formalism: The Internal Structure of Greenbergian Theory Chapter 2: Modernism and Formalism: The Internal Limits of Greenbergian Theory Part II The Legacy of Greenbergian Theory Chapter 3: The Afterlife of Medium-Specificity I: Fried on the 'Theatre' and 'Theatricality' Chapter 4: The Afterlife of Medium-Specificity II: Krauss on the 'Post-Medium Condition' Chapter 5: The Afterlife of Formalist Criticism I: de Duve on Judging 'This is art' Chapter 6: The Afterlife of Formalist Criticism II: Danto on the 'Aesthetics of Form' Part III Kant's Theory of Art Reconsidered Chapter 7: Kant's Aesthetics and the Challenge of Conceptual Art Chapter 8: The Scope of Kant's Theory of Art Chapter 9: The Actuality of Kant's Aesthetics Introduction Part I Greenberg's Modernist Aesthetic Chapter 1: Modernism and Formalism: The Internal Structure of Greenbergian Theory Chapter 2: Modernism and Formalism: The Internal Limits of Greenbergian Theory Part II The Legacy of Greenbergian Theory Chapter 3: The Afterlife of Medium-Specificity I: Fried on the 'Theatre' and 'Theatricality' Chapter 4: The Afterlife of Medium-Specificity II: Krauss on the 'Post-Medium Condition' Chapter 5: The Afterlife of Formalist Criticism I: de Duve on Judging 'This is art' Chapter 6: The Afterlife of Formalist Criticism II: Danto on the 'Aesthetics of Form' Part III Kant's Theory of Art Reconsidered Chapter 7: Kant's Aesthetics and the Challenge of Conceptual Art Chapter 8: The Scope of Kant's Theory of Art Chapter 9: The Actuality of Kant's Aesthetics