Art And Enlightenment

Author : David Roberts
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2006-03-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 0803290101

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Art and Enlightenment by David Roberts Pdf

The crisis of tradition early in the twentieth century?signaled by the collapse of perspective in painting and tonality in music and evident in the explosive ferment of the avant-garde movements?opened a new stage of modern art, which aesthetic theory is still struggling to comprehend. David Roberts situates the current aesthetic and cultural debates in a wider historical frame which extends from Hegel and the German Romantics to Luk¾cs and Adorno, Benjamin and Baudrillard. Art and Enlightenment: Aesthetic Theory after Adorno is the first detailed analysis in English of Theodor Adorno?s seminal Philosophy of Modern Music, which can be seen as a turning point between modern and postmodern art and theory. Adorno's diagnosis of the crisis of modernist values points back to Hegel's thesis of the end of art and also forward to the postmodernist debate. Thus the paradoxes of Adorno?s negative aesthetics return to haunt the current discussion by representatives of the second generation of the Frankfurt School, Anglo-American Marxism, and French poststructuralism. Going beyond Adorno's dialectic of musical enlighten-ment, Roberts proposes an alternative model of the enlightenment, of art applied to literature and exemplified in the outline of a theory of parody. In its critique of Adorno, Art and Enlightenment clears the way for a reconsideration of twentieth-century artistic theory and practice and also, in offering a model of postmodern art, seeks to disentangle critical issues in the discussion of the avant-garde, modernism, and postmodernism.

Author : Stephen Addiss,John Daido Loori
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 111 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781590307472

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The Zen Art Book by Stephen Addiss,John Daido Loori Pdf

"When a Zen master puts brush to paper, the resulting image is an expression of the quality of his or her mind. It is thus a teaching, intended to compassionately stop us in our tracks and to compel us to consider ultimate truth. Here, forty masterpieces of painting and calligraphy by renowned masters such as Hakuin Ekaku (1685–1768) and Gibon Sengai (1750–1837) are reproduced along with commentary that illuminates both the art and its teaching. The authors’ essays provide an excellent introduction to both the aesthetic and didactic aspects of this art that can be profound, perplexing, serious, humorous, and breathtakingly beautiful—often all within the same simple piece."--Publisher description.

Author : Osho
Publisher : Diamond Pocket Books (P) Ltd.
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Enlightenment (Zen Buddhism)
ISBN : 817182398X

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Zen : The Art Of Enlightenment by Osho Pdf

Author : Celina Fox
Publisher : Paul Mellon Centre for Studies
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Art
ISBN : 0300160429

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The Arts of Industry in the Age of Enlightenment by Celina Fox Pdf

During the 18th century, the arts of industry encompassed both liberal and mechanical realms--not simply the representation of work in the fine art of painting, but the skills involved in the processes of industry itself. Drawing on a wealth of primary sources, Celina Fox argues that mechanics and artisans used four principal means to describe and rationalize their work: drawing, model-making, societies, and publications. These four channels, which form the four central themes of this engrossing book, provided the basis for experimentation and invention, for explanation and classification, for validation and authorization, and for promotion and celebration, thus bringing them into the public domain and achieving progress as a true part of the Enlightenment.

Author : Tarthang Tulku,Elizabeth Cook,Yeshe De Project
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Art
ISBN : UVA:X030369348

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Art of Enlightenment by Tarthang Tulku,Elizabeth Cook,Yeshe De Project Pdf

Sacred art portfolio series: I. Lineage of Rainbow Light; II. Heat of Compassion; III. The Great Siddhas I; IV. The Great Siddhas II; V. The Buddha's Previous Lives; VI. Path of Liberation; VII. Knowledge, Elixir of Immortality; VIII. Enlightened Masters.

Author : Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780807829561

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Painterly Enlightenment by Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann Pdf

"Kaufmann situates Maulbertsch as a fresco painter at a time of transition to easel painting, a colorist at a time when color was not fully appreciated by contemporary observers, and an interpreter of religious themes at a time when secular subjects were becoming more popular. Although he has been dismissed as an eccentric by previous scholars, Kaufmann's analysis shows Maulbertsch involved in the intellectual and aesthetic issues of his day."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Jonathan Friday
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-03
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781845404444

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Art and Enlightenment by Jonathan Friday Pdf

During the intellectual and cultural flowering of Scotland in the 18th century few subjects attracted as much interest among men of letters as aesthetics - the study of art from the subjective perspective of human experience. All of the great philosophers of the age - Hutcheson, Hume, Smith and Reid - addressed themselves to aesthetic questions. Their inquiries revolved around a cluster of issues - the nature of taste, beauty and the sublime, how qualitative differences operate upon the mind through the faculty of taste, and how aesthetic sensibility can be improved through education. This volume brings together and provides contextual introductions to the most significant 18th century writing on the philosophy of art. From the pioneering study of beauty by Francis Hutcheson, through Hume's seminal essays on the standard of taste and tragedy, to the end of the tradition in Dugald Stewart, we are swept up in the debate about art and its value that fascinated the philosophers of enlightenment Scotland - and continues to do so to this day.

Author : David Roberts
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1991-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 0803238975

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Art and Enlightenment by David Roberts Pdf

The crisis of tradition early in the twentieth century?signaled by the collapse of perspective in painting and tonality in music and evident in the explosive ferment of the avant-garde movements?opened a new stage of modern art, which aesthetic theory is still struggling to comprehend. David Roberts situates the current aesthetic and cultural debates in a wider historical frame which extends from Hegel and the German Romantics to Luk¾cs and Adorno, Benjamin and Baudrillard. Art and Enlightenment: Aesthetic Theory after Adorno is the first detailed analysis in English of Theodor Adorno?s seminal Philosophy of Modern Music, which can be seen as a turning point between modern and postmodern art and theory. Adorno's diagnosis of the crisis of modernist values points back to Hegel's thesis of the end of art and also forward to the postmodernist debate. Thus the paradoxes of Adorno?s negative aesthetics return to haunt the current discussion by representatives of the second generation of the Frankfurt School, Anglo-American Marxism, and French poststructuralism. Going beyond Adorno's dialectic of musical enlighten-ment, Roberts proposes an alternative model of the enlightenment, of art applied to literature and exemplified in the outline of a theory of parody. In its critique of Adorno, Art and Enlightenment clears the way for a reconsideration of twentieth-century artistic theory and practice and also, in offering a model of postmodern art, seeks to disentangle critical issues in the discussion of the avant-garde, modernism, and postmodernism.

Author : Elena Russo
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2007-01-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780801896101

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Styles of Enlightenment by Elena Russo Pdf

Styles of Enlightenment argues that alongside its democratic ideals and its efforts to create a unified public sphere, the Enlightenment also displayed a tendency to erect rigid barriers when it came to matters of style and artistic expression. The French philosophes tackled the issue of the hierarchy of genres with surprising inflexibility, and they looked down on those forms of art that they saw as commercial, popular, and merely entertaining. They were convinced that the standard of taste was too important a matter to be left to the whims of the public and the vagaries of the marketplace: aesthetic judgment ought to belong to a few, enlightened minds who would then pass it on to the masses. Through readings of fictions, essays, memoirs, eulogies, and theatrical works by Fénelon, Bouhours, Marivaux, Montesquieu, Voltaire, Diderot, Rousseau, Mercier, Thomas, and others, Styles of Enlightenment traces the stages of a confrontation between the virile philosophe and the effeminate worldly writer, "good" and "bad" taste, high art and frivolous entertainment, state patronage and the privately sponsored marketplace, the academic eulogy and worldly conversation. It teases out the finer points of division on the public battlefields of literature and politics and the new world of contesting sexual economies.

Author : Johann Georg Sulzer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780521360357

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Aesthetics and the Art of Musical Composition in the German Enlightenment by Johann Georg Sulzer Pdf

Can an abstract theory of Empfindsamkeit aesthetics have any value to a musician wishing to study composition in the classical style? The eighteenth-century German theorist and pedagogue Heinrich Koch showed how this question could be answered with a resounding yes. Starting with the systematic aesthetic theory of the Swiss encyclopedist Johann Sulzer, Koch was creatively able to adapt Sulzer's conservative ideas on ethical mimesis and rhetoric to concrete problems of music analysis and composition. In this collaborative study, Thomas Christensen and Nancy Baker have translated and analysed selected writings of Sulzer and Koch respectively, bringing to life a little-known confluence of philosophical and musical thought from the German Enlightenment. Koch's appropriation of Sulzer's ideas to the service of music represents an important development in the evolution of Western musical thought.

Author : Jessica L. Fripp
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2021-02-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781644532027

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Portraiture and Friendship in Enlightenment France by Jessica L. Fripp Pdf

Portraiture and Friendship in Enlightenment France examines how new and often contradictory ideas about friendship were enacted in the lives of artists in the eighteenth century. It demonstrates that portraits resulted from and generated new ideas about friendship by analyzing the creation, exchange, and display of portraits alongside discussions of friendship in philosophical and academic discourse, exhibition criticism, personal diaries, and correspondence. This study provides a deeper understanding of how artists took advantage of changing conceptions of social relationships and used portraiture to make visible new ideas about friendship that were driven by Enlightenment thought. Studies in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Art and Culture Distributed for the University of Delaware Press

Author : Stefanie Buchenau
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013-02-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781107311176

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The Founding of Aesthetics in the German Enlightenment by Stefanie Buchenau Pdf

When, in 1735, Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten added a new discipline to the philosophical system, he not only founded modern aesthetics but also contributed to shaping the modern concept of art or 'fine art'. In The Founding of Aesthetics in the German Enlightenment, Stefanie Buchenau offers a rich analysis and reconstruction of the origins of this new discipline in its wider context of German Enlightenment philosophy. Present-day scholars commonly regard Baumgarten's views as an imperfect prefiguration of Kantian and post-Kantian aesthetics, but Buchenau argues that Baumgarten defended a consistent and original project which must be viewed in the context of the modern debate on the art of invention. Her book offers new perspectives on Kantian aesthetics and beauty in art and science.

Author : Thomas M. Kavanagh
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780812202441

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Esthetics of the Moment by Thomas M. Kavanagh Pdf

The literature and art of the French Enlightenment is everywhere marked by an intense awareness of the moment. The parallel projects of living in, representing, and learning from the moment run through the Enlightenment's endeavors as tokens of an ambition and a heritage imposing its only and ultimately impossible cohesion. In this illuminating study, Thomas M. Kavanagh argues that Enlightenment culture and its tensions, contradictions, and achievements flow from a subversive attention to the present as present, freed from the weight of past and future. Examining a wide sweep of literary and artistic culture, Kavanagh argues against the traditional view of the Age of Reason as one of coherent, recognizable ideology expressed in a structured narrative form. In literature, he analyzes the moment at work in the inebriating lightness of Marivaux's repartee; the new-found freedom of Lahontan's and Rousseau's ideals of a consciousness limited to the present; Diderot's championing of Epicurean epistemology; Graffigny's portrayal of abrupt cultural displacement; and Casanova's penchant for chance's redefining moment. The moment in art theory and practice is explored in such forms as de Piles's defense of color; Du Bos's foregrounding of perception; Watteau's indulgence in a corporeal present; Chardin's dismantling of mimesis; and Boucher's and Fragonard's thematics of desire.

Author : Barbara Maria Stafford
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 634 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1993-08-13
Category : Design
ISBN : 0262691655

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Body Criticism by Barbara Maria Stafford Pdf

In this erudite and profusely illustrated history of perception, Barbara Stafford explores a remarkable set of body metaphors deriving from both aesthetic and medical practices that were developed during the enlightenment for making visible the unseeable aspects of the world. While she focuses on these metaphors as a reflection of the changing attitudes toward the human body during the period of birth of the modern world, she also presents a strong argument for our need to recognize the occurrence of a profound revolution—a radical shift from a textbased to a visually centered culture. Stafford agues, in fact, that modern societies need to develop innovative, nonlinguistic paradigms and to train a broad public in visual aptitude.

Author : Rebecca Messbarger,Christopher M. S. Johns,Philip Gavitt
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017-01-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442624757

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Benedict XIV and the Enlightenment by Rebecca Messbarger,Christopher M. S. Johns,Philip Gavitt Pdf

Benedict XIV and the Enlightenment offers a comprehensive assessment of Benedict's engagement with Enlightenment art, science, spirituality, and culture.