Towards an Aesthetics of Production

ISBN-13: 9783037348857 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 208 str.

Sebastion Egenhofer; James Gussen

Opis

Throughout the twentieth century, art history has been too narrowly focused on formalism. As a result, analyses regularly reduced works of art to their materials, texture, and composition. By contrast, art historian Sebastian Egenhofer takes Gilles Deleuze's readings of Spinoza, Nietzsche, and Bergson as the basis for a new resistance to the overly reductive account of art history.

After laying out his argument for a new aesthetics of production in introductory chapters that discuss the work of Spinoza, Nietzsche, and Bergson, as well as Heidegger and Kant, Egenhofer applies this theoretical framework to case studies on Michael Asher, Marcel Duchamp, Thomas Hirschhorn, and Piet Mondrian. An aesthetics of production does not, he argues, imply a nostalgia for the artisanal or for a work of art's singularity, but a way to bring together elements of critical materialism with a thorough reevaluation of the modern art and abstraction.

Spis treści

9 - 10 Introduction (Sebastian Egenhofer)11 - 44 Mirrorings of Intensity (Sebastian Egenhofer)45 - 100 The Place of the Image in Neo-Plasticism (Sebastian Egenhofer)101 - 146 Casting and Projection: The Readymades and the (Sebastian Egenhofer)147 - 174 An Introduction to Thomas Hirschhorn's "Spinoza Monument" (Sebastian Egenhofer)175 - 214 Time and Visibility in the Work of Michael Asher (Sebastian Egenhofer)215 - 294 On the Concept of Truth Production: Heidegger with Spinoza (Sebastian Egenhofer)295 - 299 List of Illustrations (Sebastian Egenhofer)

O autorze

Sebastian Egenhofer ist Professor für Moderne und Zeitgenössische Kunst, Kunsthistorisches Institut der Universität Zürich. Seine Forschungsschwerpunkte sind: zeitgenössische Kunst und Philosophie, Theorie und Geschichte der Kunst des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts und Perspektivtheorie in der frühen Neuzeit.