Social Theories of Art: A Critique

ISBN-13: 9780333668962 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 230 str.

Ian Heywood

Opis

This elegantly written book explores the tension between the theory and practice of art, taking issue with the approaches of the New Art History and its deconstructionist critics. It critically examines influential social theories of art from the viewpoint of the artworlds they target and, through a consideration of work by Rorty, Bauman, Gadamer and others, develops a new and fruitful set of connections between ethical, social and art theory that gives central importance to reflexivity as a living and problematic, as well as a theoretical, concept.

Spis treści

List of Illustrations.- Acknowledgements.- Introduction.- Art's World and the Social World.- Towards a Critical Sociology of Art?.- The Critical Theory of Art: Modernism and Violence Pragmatism, Individuation and Totalisation.- Fields, Movements and Histories.- Varieties of Theory and Practice.- Reflection, Theory and Language Hermeneutics, Aesthetics and Art: Gadamer and Modernism.- Language and the Singularity of Art.- Conclusion.