Hill How Folklore Shaped Modern Art

On the Uncritical ‘Other’ of Aesthetics
Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-1-317-39470-9
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 188 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies

This book addresses key debates about criticality in art by tracing the delimitations between folkloric and fine art production that have affected the modernist, postmodernist and contemporary eras in different ways. It looks at the tendency to equate highly valued art with the portrayal of an underlying critical reality, which, it is argued, is a legacy of Kantian philosophy. It takes a chronological approach to the key debates concerning uncritical cultural production, identifying how a ‘folkloric’ notion of culture has been used as an uncritical ‘other’ in the history of modern and postmodern art. This narration of the fine art/folkloric divide concludes with the claim that art in the contemporary era has undergone a folkloric turn in which postmodern methodologies are accompanied by an overhauled notion of the critical address.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hill, Wes

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: 20./21. Jahrhundert
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunststile Indigene Kunst, Volkskunst

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. The Aesthetic Disputes of Kant and Herder 2. A Fork in the Modernist Path: Defining Disciplinary Objectives 3. Warhol’s Poplore: Critical Distance in Postmodern Art 4. The Folklorisation of Post-Critical Art

Über Autor(innen)

Wes Hill is Lecturer in Art Theory in the School of Arts and Social Sciences at Southern Cross University, Australia