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SUBVERSION AND SUBSIDY
CONTEMPORARY ART AND AESTHETICS |
| By: |
Dafydd Roberts (Trans), Rainer Rochlitz |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£75.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1905422709 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781905422708 |
| Publisher: |
SEAGULL BOOKS LONDON LTD |
| Pub. date: |
1 January, 2008 |
| Series: |
The French List |
| Pages: |
240 |
| Description: |
Whatever the nature of a work of art, it can only be one if the artistic quality it claims for itself can be justified. Thus it is urgent to find aesthetic arguments that pay proper attention to the internal logic of artworks, arguments that are rigorous without claiming absolute truth. This work attempts to find fresh bases for such arguments. |
| Synopsis: |
Art today is in deep crisis. Criticism seems to have abandoned any notion of evaluation, the public has been denied the possibility of understanding, and aesthetics have lost all legitimacy. Formerly, artists claimed their right to decide for themselves what counted as a work of art, thanks to the subversion of the established criteria of aesthetic judgment. But that very subversion is today the object of subsidy and support by museums and galleries, anxious to display their liberalism. A new and ambiguous game of complicity and antagonism has united artists and institutions. Yet, however much the alliance of subversion and subsidy aims to exclude it, aesthetic judgment remains a necessity.Whatever the nature of a work of art, it can only be one if the artistic quality it claims for itself can be justified and shared. As symbol it cannot be reduced to a symptom; as an object of judgment it cannot depend on simple individual preferences. Thus it is now urgent to find aesthetic arguments that pay proper attention to the internal logic of artworks, arguments that are rigorous without claiming absolute truth.In this wide-ranging and fascinating book, Rainer Rochlitz attempts to find new bases for such arguments. First published in 1994, it remains a vital contribution to today's debates about the nature of the art market. |
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UK |
| Imprint: |
Seagull Books London Ltd |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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