Aesthetics and contemporary art /

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Imprint:	Berlin : Sternberg Press, 2011.
Description:	249 p. : ill. (b&w) ; 21 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Aesthetics, Modern -- 21st century. Art, Modern -- 21st century -- Philosophy. Aesthetics, Modern. Art, Modern -- Philosophy.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8553224

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Other authors / contributors:	Avanessian, Armen. Skrebowski, Luke.
ISBN:	9781934105528 193410552X
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	Torn between a revival of aesthetics and the persistence of conceptualism, critical writing about contemporary art has once again come to focus on differing views of its aesthetic dimension. The context and character of these debates has, however, shifted markedly since the 1960s, with changes in art practices, institutions, political contexts, and theoretical paradigms-and in particular, with the global extension of the Western art world since 1989. This inter- and transdisciplinary collection of essays by philosophers, artists, critics, and art historians, reconsiders the place of the aesthetic in contemporary art, with reference to four main themes: aesthetics as 'sensate thinking'; the dissolution of artistic limits; post-autonomous practices; and exhibition-values in a global artworld.

Table of Contents:

Introduction / Armen Avanessian & Luke Skrebowski
Not yet : the philosophical significance of aesthetics / Christoph Menke
Aesthetics of form revisited / Armen Avanessian
7 negations. Against aesthetic affirmationism / Juliane Rebentisch
Undoing the image (signposts of a research programme) / Eric Alliez
Aesthetic materiality in conceptualism / Sebastian Egenhofer
The fiction of the contemporary : speculative collectivity and transnationality in the atlas group / Peter Osborne
The contemporary : a new idea? / John Rajchman
Short treatise on art / Stewart Martin
Feeling good : the aesthetics of corporate art / Art & Language
The rise of the exhibition and the exhibition as art / Dorothea Von Hantelmann
The invisible hand of curation / Pamela M. Lee
The rules of the game : activist art in the creative city / Brian Holmes
The two versions of Santa Anna's leg and other things / Luis Camnitzer.

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