Kester The Sovereign Self

Aesthetic Autonomy from the Enlightenment to the Avant-Garde
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-4780-2455-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 280 Seiten

Grant H. Kester examines the evolving discourse of aesthetic autonomy from its origins in the Enlightenment through avant-garde projects and movements in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kester, Grant H.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Geschichte der Kunstwissenschaft und Kunstkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: 20./21. Jahrhundert
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunsttheorie, Kunstphilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction 1
I. From Beauty to Dissensus
1. Freedom and Sovereignty 19
2. Communism and the Aesthetic State 48
II. Negation and Performativity
3. From Vanguard to Avant-Garde 85
4. Activism and Autonomy in the 1960s 108
III. Autonomy since the 1980s
5. The Rise of the Neo-Avant-Garde 145
6. The Hirschhorn Monument: Autonomy as Brand and Alibi 180
Conclusion. Aesthetics beyond Semblance 212
Notes 219
Works Cited 243
Index 259

Über Autor(innen)

Grant H. Kester is Professor of Art History at the University of California, San Diego, author of Beyond the Sovereign Self: Aesthetic Autonomy from the Avant-Garde to Socially Engaged Art and The One and the Many: Contemporary Collaborative Art in a Global Context, and coeditor of Collective Situations: Readings in Contemporary Latin American Art, 1995–2010, all also published by Duke University Press.