Esthetics ContemporaryRichard Kostelanetz Prometheus Books, 1989 - 470 Seiten How are we to understand, define, and critically evaluate the function, origin, and types of art and establish criteria for describing a work as "superior?" While such esthetic questions are unchanging, the answers vary markedly from decade to decade and even year to year, depending upon the prevailing opinion of critics, artists, and the public. Esthetics Contemporary has been revised and updated to include fourteen new selections from many of the most respected authorities on literature, dance, the visual arts, theatre, music, cinema, and architecture. Kostelanetz captures the rich diversity of our changing views of art while at the same time discloses its variegated influence on the contemporary art scene. Esthetics withers if compelled to remain within the stultifying confines of rigid theories. The experiential dimension of esthetic requires that it change if trends and breakthroughs in the arts are to be appreciated fully. Esthetics can ill afford to ignore the fluid reality of creative forces - that intimate and interpenetrating relationship between the esthetic theory of a particular period and the arts that dominate. Featured in this volume are discussions of the future of music, minimalist tendencies in dance, conceptual art, theatre esthetics, de-architecturalization, art as internal technology, the esthetics of the avant-garde, modernism and postmodernism, photography and esthetics, video art, radio drama, affirmation of space-time forces, criticism of imaginative writing, a structural-informational approach to cinema, phenomenal art, and much more. The first edition of Esthetics Contemporary distinguished itself as a pioneering volume that gave new meaning and clearer understanding to the often misunderstood world of contemporary art. This revised edition with its many new selections will continue that fine tradition into the next decade and beyond. |
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... Art " show in a YMHA gallery in Philadelphia . In its first state Morris's ... Indian burial mounds . " Transporting " one of these would be a matter of ... art work as in the technique of collage . Andre's floor reliefs are architectural ...
... Art " show in a YMHA gallery in Philadelphia . In its first state Morris's ... Indian burial mounds . " Transporting " one of these would be a matter of ... art work as in the technique of collage . Andre's floor reliefs are architectural ...
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... Indian ragas , powerfully recreating the experience of primal cosmic ... art or science , but to heal , to make whole , to maintain a balance between ... art produces spritual power . In the Catholic ritual transubstantiation makes the ...
... Indian ragas , powerfully recreating the experience of primal cosmic ... art or science , but to heal , to make whole , to maintain a balance between ... art produces spritual power . In the Catholic ritual transubstantiation makes the ...
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... art may well be the residue of an active realization of nonduality . In the art of Tantra , both of India and Tibet , we have perhaps the purest example of an archaic nondualizing tradition that has survived quite intact . The ...
... art may well be the residue of an active realization of nonduality . In the art of Tantra , both of India and Tibet , we have perhaps the purest example of an archaic nondualizing tradition that has survived quite intact . The ...
Inhalt
Preface to the Original Edition | 13 |
The Aesthetics of the AvantGarde | 35 |
The Function of | 65 |
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