"Lawrence Alloway Ranks among the most important critics of his time, and his contributions to the spirited and contentious dialogue of his era make for fascinating reading. This collection of twenty-nine provocative essays from 1956 to 1980 provides readers with valuable perspe…
"Lawrence Alloway Ranks among the most important critics of his time, and his contributions to the spirited and contentious dialogue of his era make for fascinating reading. This collection of twenty-nine provocative essays from 1956 to 1980 provides readers with valuable perspe…
"What, if anything, has art to do with the rest of our lives, and in particular with those ethical and political issues that matter to us most? Will art created today be likely to play a role in our lives as profound as that of the best art of the past?" "A Theory of Art shifts …
Not 'what is art', but 'what is art for' is investigated in this book. Through the combination of aesthetics, poetics and hermeneutics questions of the function, content and form of artworks are directly related to their meaning and interpretation. Although the author takes his …
This philosophical theory of art has three main objectives: to shift the focus of aesthetics from What is art? to What is art for?; to describe the social and historical situation of art today; and to combine aesthetics with poetics and hermeneutics.
"What, if anything, has art to do with the rest of our lives, and in particular with those ethical and political issues that matter to us most? Will art created today be likely to play a role in our lives as profound as that of the best art of the past?" "A Theory of Art shifts …
Poussière, suie, verre cassé ... Tels sont les matériaux utilisés par Claudio Parmiggiani dans la série d'oeuvres intitulée "Delocazione". En contemplant le résultat de son travail, vide de couleur, empreint de grisaille, d'ombre et d'absence, on s'interroge sur le souffle, sur …
"Bertolt Brecht once worried that our sympathy for the victims of a social problem can make the problem's 'beauty and attraction' invisible. In 'The Beauty of a Social Problem, ' Walter Benn Michaels explores the effort to overcome this difficulty through a study of several cont…
