Art In Its Time : Theories and Practices of Modern Aesthetics

ISBN-13: 9780415239202 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 192 str.

Jr. Paul Mattick

Opis

What is the role of art in everyday life?
Art writing normally contrasts art with "everyday life." This book explores art as integral to the everyday life of modern society, providing materials to represent class and conflict, to explore sex and sexuality, and to think about modern industry and economic relationships. Art, as we know it, is not common to all forms of society but is peculiar to our own; what art "is" changes with people's conceptions of the tasks of art, conceptions that are themselves a part of social history. The history of society does not shape art from the outside, but includes the attempts of artists to find new ways of making art and thinking about it.
The essays in "Art in Its Time" offer a critical examination of the central categories of art theory and history. They propose a mode of understanding grounded in concrete case studies of ideas and objects, exploring such topics as the gender content of eighteenth-century theories of the sublime and beautiful, the role of photography in the production of aesthetic 'aura, ' the limits of political art, and the paradox by which art, pursued for its own sake with no thought of commerical gain, can produce the highest-priced of all objects.
Employing an unusually wide range of historical sources and theoretical perspectives to understand the place of art in capitalist society, "Art in Its Time" shows a way out of many of the cul-de-sacs of recent art history and theory.

Recenzje

'The impressive theoretical scope and sophistication of these essays are matched by their clarity, penetration and detail.' - The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism

Spis treści

1. Introduction 2. Some Masks of Modernism 3. Beautiful and Sublime: 'Gender Totemism' in the Constitution of Art 4. Art and Money 5. Pork and Porcelain 6. The Rationalization of Art 7. Mechanical Reproduction in the Age of Art 8. Aesthetics and Anti-aesthetics 9. The Andy Warhol of Philosophy and the Philosophy of Andy Warhol 10. The Avant-Garde in Fashion 11. Class Taste

O autorze

Paul Mattick