AESTHETIC AUTONOMY by B. van Heusden (Editor), L. Korthals Altes (Editor) ( 9789042915794 )

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Title:

AESTHETIC AUTONOMY
PROBLEMS AND PERSPECTIVES

By:

B. van Heusden (Editor), L. Korthals Altes (Editor)

Format:

Hardback

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ISBN 10:

904291579X

ISBN 13:

9789042915794

Publisher:

PEETERS PUBLISHERS

Series:

Groningen Studies in Cultural Change v.15

Pages:

144

Description:

Contains a selection of essays presented at the international conference on Cultural Crises in Art and Literature, Groningen, November 2002, in a special session on the question of the autonomy of the arts.

Synopsis:

This volume contains a selection of essays presented at the international conference on Cultural Crises in Art and Literature, held in Groningen in November 2002, in a special session on the question of the autonomy of the arts. Do we witness, in western culture, the end of the autonomy of the arts as it has been conceptualized and institutionalized since the eighteenth century? Indeed, developments of quite a different nature seem to have contributed to a blurring of boundaries between art and non-art, art and the market, art and politics or ethics, as well as between the arts themselves, and between 'high' and 'low' art. Although this volume does not pretend to map this complex process in its entirety - partly because it is impossible to step out of one's own history - it is meant as a contribution to the elucidation of the process itself, offering some challenging explanations as to the heat of the current debate.

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illustrations

Publication:

Belgium

Imprint:

Peeters Publishers

Returns:

Non-returnable

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