Art Mimesis And The Avant Garde

Author : Andrew Benjamin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2005-07-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134920464

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This book explores the relationship between art and philosophy. Andrew Benjamin argues for a reworking of the task of philosophy in terms of the centrality of ontology. It is in relation to this centrality, understood through the differences between modes of being, that art, mimesis and the avant-garde come to be presented. A fundamental part of this book is the original interpretations of important contemporary painters and their paintings: Lucian Freud's self-portraits, Francis Bacon's use of mirrors, R.B. Kitaj and Jewish identity, Anselm Kiefer and iconoclasm. Apart from painting, Benjamin considers architecture, literature and the philosophical writings of Walter Benjamin and Descartes in elaborating the various aspects of ontological difference. The theory of the avant-garde which is developed in the book, in which the avant-garde is a philosophical category rather than a historical marker, is a major contribution to art criticism. It brings the worlds of contemporary art criticism and contemporary philosophy closer together.

Author : Andrew E. Benjamin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Aesthetics
ISBN : OCLC:300392992

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Author : Andrew Benjamin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2005-07-26
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781134920471

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First published in 1991. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : David Graver
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Art
ISBN : 0472105078

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The Aesthetics of Disturbance by David Graver Pdf

Explores interconnections among early 20th-century visual, literary, and performance art

Author : Boris Groys
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-27
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781844678099

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The Total Art of Stalinism by Boris Groys Pdf

From the ruins of communism, Boris Groys emerges to provoke our interest in the aesthetic goals pursued with such catastrophic consequences by its founders. Interpreting totalitarian art and literature in the context of cultural history, this brilliant essay likens totalitarian aims to the modernists’ goal of producing world-transformative art. In this new edition, Groys revisits the debate that the book has stimulated since its first publication.

Author : Elizabeth Millán
Publisher : Open Court
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780812698978

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After the Avant-Gardes by Elizabeth Millán Pdf

A rallying call for all those who have been disquieted or disgusted by the excesses of artistic modernism. This is a collection of ten provocative essays on the arts, by writers of varied orientations who share a skepticism about the exaggerated role of modernism and the successive avant-gardes in shaping what is accepted as valid contemporary art. The essays cover painting and other visual arts, literature, music, and general observations about all the arts. It is not an exercise in hand-wringing about the current state of the arts, but looks for different directions in which the arts may now fruitfully evolve. Despite the diverse philosophies of the contributors, these essays together constitute a formidable case against the unhealthy impact of avant-gardism on our lives and aesthetic culture. The essays include the following, among others: a study of anti-modernist painter Odd Nerdrum, who sees modernist art as totalitarian; a critique of the avant-gardist neglect of mimesis as a key to art; an evaluation of “the end of art”; a critique of modern art in light of “the aesthetic harm principle”; an examination of Popper's objections to progressivism in music; the presentation of a new paradigm for literature.

Author : Peter Bürger
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Aesthetics
ISBN : 0719014530

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Theory of the Avant-garde by Peter Bürger Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2024-01-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004685871

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The European Avant-Garde – A Hundred Years Later by Anonim Pdf

The title of this book, The European Avant-Garde – A Hundred Years Later, implies the European avant-garde took place a century ago, that it is a thing of the past. However, it does not aim to consolidate this position, but to question it. It addresses temporality as the central dimension related to the notion of the avant-garde. The book brings forth original revisions of the theories of the avant-garde, the works of the avant-garde, the idea of the avant-garde as being the vanguard, the leading force of change. It addresses the returning of the avant-garde during the twentieth century and today.

Author : Sally Everett
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1995-01-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 0786401400

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Art Theory and Criticism by Sally Everett Pdf

Arranged chronologically, the essays in this book--each brilliantly introduced by the editor--deal with the way art and culture interact in modern times. Each author focuses on one aspect of modern art and its relation to culture by analyzing, questioning or refuting the ideas about art that people just assume are true. The essays are also grouped into one of four different models used by art theorists today: the formalist (in which the works of art describe the processes of making art), the avant-garde (art that threatens the status quo), the contextualist (in which art can exist only in a specific situation or context), and the post-modernist (stating that art is not completely detached from popular culture). Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.

Author : John Roberts
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781781689141

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Revolutionary Time and the Avant-Garde by John Roberts Pdf

Why the avant-garde of art needs to be rehabilitated today Since the decidedly bleak beginning of the twenty-first century, art practice has become increasingly politicized. Yet few have put forward a sustained defence of this development. Revolutionary Time and the Avant-Garde is the first book to look at the legacy of the avant-garde in relation to the deepening crisis of contemporary capitalism. An invigorating revitalization of the Frankfurt School legacy, Roberts’s book defines and validates the avant-garde idea with an erudite acuity, providing a refined conceptual set of tools to engage critically with the most advanced art theorists of our day, such as Hal Foster, Andrew Benjamin, Alain Badiou, Jacques Rancière, Paolo Virno, Claire Bishop, Michael Hardt, and Toni Negri.

Author : Ilaria Riccioni
Publisher : Mimesis
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-02T00:00:00+02:00
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9788869772504

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Futurism: Anticipating Postmodernism by Ilaria Riccioni Pdf

The first Manifesto of Futurism was published on Le Figaro on February 20th, 1909. It was to become the first avantgarde movement in art, with the multiple aim of: changing the function of art within society, foster Italian culture beyond its provincial domains, and last, but not least extend language as free expression of a new and forthcoming society of technology. Art in life, was the deep aim of Marinetti’s poetry, which was then to expand well beyond Italian borders and well beyond artistic expression, becoming an attitude for entering the new society. The more society was developing social constraints, the more artistic expression would become free of canons to let imagination fluently overwhelm reality. The main topics proclaimed as crucial by Futurists are the contemporary most influencial topics for social stability: politics, communication and technology as well as the major movers of social change. What can we still grasp from the radical claims of avant-garde art?

Author : K. Beekman,Jan de Vries
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789042021525

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Avant-garde and Criticism by K. Beekman,Jan de Vries Pdf

Avant-Garde and Criticism sheds new light on the complex aims, functions, practices and contexts of art-criticism in relation to the European avant-garde. Although many avant-garde works and the avant-gardes of various countries have been analyzed, considerably less attention has been given to the reviews in newspapers and journals on avant-garde literature, art, architecture and film. This volume of Avant-Garde Critical Studies will look at how art critics operated in a strategic way. The strategies of avant-garde criticism are diverse. Art critics, especially when they are artists themselves, attempt to manipulate the cultural climate in their favour. They use their position to legitimize avant-garde concepts and to conquer a place in the cultural field. But they are also markedly influenced by the context in which they operate. The position of fellow-critics and the ideological bias of the papers in which they publish can be as important as the political climate in which their criticism flourishes. The analysis of avant-garde art criticism can also make clear how strategies sometimes fail and involuntarily display non-avant-garde characteristics. On the other hand traditionalist criticism on the avant-garde offers new insights into its status and reception in a given time and place. This volume is of interest for scholars, teachers and students who are interested in the avant-garde of the interbellum-period and work in the field of literature, art, film and architecture.

Author : Marc James Léger
Publisher : Intellect Books
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781789380903

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The Idea of the Avant Garde by Marc James Léger Pdf

The concept of the avant garde is highly contested, whether one consigns it to history or claims it for present-day or future uses. The first volume of The Idea of the Avant Garde – And What It Means Today provided a lively forum on the kinds of radical art theory and partisan practices that are possible in today’s world of global art markets and creative industry entrepreneurialism. This second volume presents the work of another 50 artists and writers, exploring the diverse ways that avant-gardism develops reflexive and experimental combinations of aesthetic and political praxis. The manifest strategies, temporalities, and genealogies of avant-garde art and politics are expressed through an international, intergenerational, and interdisciplinary convocation of ideas that covers the fields of film, video, architecture, visual art, art activism, literature, poetry, theatre, performance, intermedia and music.

Author : Sarah Posman,Anne Reverseau,David Ayers,Sascha Bru,Benedikt Hjartarson
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110317534

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The Aesthetics of Matter by Sarah Posman,Anne Reverseau,David Ayers,Sascha Bru,Benedikt Hjartarson Pdf

It has often been argued that the arrival of the early-20th-century avant-gardes and modernisms coincided with an in-depth exploration of the materiality of art and writing. The European historical avant-gardes and modernisms excelled in their attempts to establish the specificity of media and art forms as well as in experimenting with the hybridity of the materials of their multiple disciplines. This third volume of the series European Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies sheds light on the full range and import of this aspect in avant-garde and modernist aesthetics across all art forms and throughout the 19th and 20th centuries. The book’s contributions, written by experts from some 20 countries, seek to answer the following questions: What sort of objects and material, works and media help us to properly grasp the avant-garde and modernist “aesthetics of matter”? How were affects, emotions and sensory and bodily experiences transferred and transformed in the experiment with matter? How were “immaterial” things such as concepts of time changed in this aesthetic moment? What “material meanings” were disseminated in the cultural transfer and translation of objects? How did subsequent avant-gardes deal with the “aesthetics of matter” in their response to historical predecessors?

Author : Ilaria Riccioni
Publisher : Sociology
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2019-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 8869772314

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Futurism: Anticipating Postmodernism by Ilaria Riccioni Pdf

The first Manifesto of Futurism was published on Le Figaro on February 20th, 1909. It was to become the first avant garde movement in art, with the multiple aim of changing the function of art within society, fostering Italian culture beyond its provincial domains, and last, but not least extending language as free expression of a new and forthcoming society of technology. Art in life, was the deep aim of Marinetti's poetry, which was then to expand well beyond Italian borders and well beyond artistic expression, becoming an attitude for entering the new society. The more society was developing social constraints, the more artistic expression would become free of canons to let imagination fluently overwhelm reality. The main topics proclaimed as crucial by Futurists are the contemporary most influential topics for social stability: politics, communication and technology as well as the major movers of social change. What can we still grasp from the radical claims of avant-garde art?