Elkins Art History Versus Aesthetics

Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-1-135-50699-5
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 320 Seiten

Reihe: The Art Seminar

In this unprecedented collection, over twenty of the world's most prominent thinkers on the subject including Arthur Danto, Stephen Melville, Wendy Steiner, Alexander Nehamas, and Jay Bernstein ponder the disconnect between these two disciplines. The volume has a radically innovative structure: it begins with introductions, and centres on an animated conversation among ten historians and aestheticians. That conversation was then sent to twenty scholars for commentary and their responses are very diverse: some are informal letters and others full essays with footnotes. Some think they have the answer in hand, and others raise yet more questions. The volume ends with two synoptic essays, one by a prominent aesthetician and the other by a literary critic.

This stimulating inaugural volume in the Routledge The Art Seminar series presents not one but many answers to the question; Does philosophy have anything to say to art history?

Autoren/Hrsg.

Elkins, James

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Series Preface, by James Elkins

1. INTRODUCTORY ESSAY
Robert Gero, "The Border of the Aesthetic"

2. STARTING POINTS
Joseph Margolis, "Exorcising the Dreariness of Aesthetics"
James Elkins, "Why Don't Art Historians Attend Aesthetics Conferences?"

3. THE ART SEMINAR
Participants: Arthur Danto, Thierry De Duve, Diarmuid Costello,
Martin Donougho, David Raskin, Anna Dezeuze, Richard Woodfield,
Dominic Willsdon, Francis Halsall, Nicholas Davey,
John Hyman, David Raskin

4. ASSESSMENTS
Diarmuid Costello
Anna Dezeuze
Dominic Willsdon
David Raskin
John Hyman
Francis Halsall
Richard Woodfield
Ladislav Kesner
Joseph Margolis
Crispin Sartwell
Paul Crowther
Mary Rawlinson
Jan Bakos
Alexander Nehamas
Ciarán Benson
Wendy Steiner
Mathew Rampley
Keith Moxey
Christine Wertheim
Eva Schürmann
Harry Cooper
Adrian Rifkin
David Getsy
Michael Kelly
Margaret Iversen
Michael Golec
Michael Newman
Gregg Horowitz
Stephen Melville

5. AFTERWORDS
Jay Bernstein, "Modernism as Aesthetics and Art History"
Marc Redfield, "Island Mysteries"

Notes on Contributors

Über Autor(innen)

James Elkins is E.C. Chadbourne Chair in the Department of Art History, Theory, and Criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and Head of History of Art at the University College Cork, Ireland. He is the author of Pictures and Tears, How to Use Your Eyes, and What Painting Is and, most recently, The Strange Place of Religion in Contemporary Art and Master Narratives and Their Discontents, all published by Routledge.