Art history versus aesthetics

Art history versus aesthetics

by Elkins, James

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In this unprecedented collection, over twenty of the world's most prominent thinkers on the subject including Arthur Danto, Stephen Melville, Wendy Steiner, Alexander Nehamas, and Jay Bernstein ponder the disconnect between these two disciplines. The volume has a radically innovative structure: it begins with introductions, and centres on an animated conversation among ten historians and aestheticians. That conversation was then sent to twenty scholars for commentary and their responses are ver…

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Title Statements

  • Full title :Art history versus aesthetics / edited by James Elkins.

Summary

In this unprecedented collection, over twenty of the world's most prominent thinkers on the subject including Arthur Danto, Stephen Melville, Wendy Steiner, Alexander Nehamas, and Jay Bernstein ponder the disconnect between these two disciplines. The volume has a radically innovative structure: it begins with introductions, and centres on an animated conversation among ten historians and aestheticians. That conversation was then sent to twenty scholars for commentary and their responses are very diverse: some are informal letters and others full essays with footnotes.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2006.

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):Routledge
  • Place of Publication:New York
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:2006.

The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource (x, 306 pages) : : illustrations

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9781135506926, 1135506922, 9780203959879, 0203959876, 041597688X, 9780415976886, 0415976898, 9780415976893
  • oclc:ocn819635888
  • LC Classification:N7480
  • Dewey Decimal:701.17

Table of Contents

1. Introductory essay: The border of the aesthetic / Robert Gero -- 2. Starting points. Exorcising the dreariness of aesthetics / Joseph Margolis -- Why don't art historians attend aesthetics conferences? / James Elkins -- 3. The art Seminar. Participants: Arthur Danto, Thierry de Duve, Diarmuid Costello -- Martin Donougho, David Raskin, Anna Dezeuze, Richard Woodfield -- Dominic Willsdon, Francis Halsall, Nicholas Davey -- John Hyman, David Raskin -- 4. Assessments -- Diarmuid Costello -- Anna Dezeuze -- Dominic Willsdon -- David Raskin -- John Hyman -- Francis Halsall -- Richard Woodfield -- Ladislav Kesner -- Joseph Margolis -- Crispin Sartwell -- Paul Crowther -- Mary Rawlinson -- Jan Bakos -- Alexander Nehamas -- Ciarán Benson -- Wendy Steiner -- Mathew Rampley -- Keith Moxey -- Christine Wertheim -- Eva Schürmann -- Harry Cooper -- Adrian Rifkin -- David Getsy -- Michael Kelly -- Margaret Iversen -- Michael Golec -- Michael Newman -- Gregg Horowitz -- Stephen Melville -- 5. Afterwords -- Modernism as aesthetics and art history / Jay Bernstein -- Island mysteries / Marc Redfield.

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Subjects

Aesthetics Aesthetics -- Congresses Art -- Congresses. -- Historiography ART -- General Conference papers and proceedings Historiography

Writers

Elkins, James

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