Part of the acclaimed 'Documents of Contemporary Art' series of anthologies . Beauty is among the most hotly contested subjects in current discussions on art and culture. After decades of disavowal, beauty's resurgence in recent art has engaged some of the most influential artists and writers. Spanning diverse positions, this anthology assembles the key texts on the cultural politics of this recent phenomenon, as well as contextualizing these debates - both for and against - in artistic practice and the broader history of aesthetics. Artists surveyed include: Vito Acconci, Jake and Dinos Chapman, Gustave Courbet, Marcel Duchamp, Marlene Dumas, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Adolph Gottlieb, Hans Hofmann, Gary Hume, Asger Jorn, Alex Katz, Willem de Kooning, Joseph Kosuth, Paul McCarthy, Edouard Manet, Robert Mapplethorpe, Agnes Martin, Robert Morris, Barnett Newman, Pablo Picasso, Jackson Pollock, Gerhard Richter, Mark Rothko, Robert Smithson, Nancy Spero, Frank Stella, Clyfford Still and Andy Warhol. Writers include: Theodor Adorno, Alexander Alberro, Rasheed Araeen, Art & Language, Benjamin H. D. Buchloh, T. J. Clark, Mark Cousins, Arthur C. Danto, Jacques Derrida, Thierry de Duve, Fredric Jameson, Christoph Grunenberg, Dave Hickey, Suzanne Perling Hudson, Caroline A. Jones, John Roberts, Elaine Scarry, Wendy Steiner and Paul Wood.
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Dave Beech is a London-based British artist and writer. He is a member of the collective freee (www.freee.org.uk). A regular contributor to Art Monthly, he has examined the legacies of the avant-garde in essays such as 'Art's Detractors', 'Shock vs Awe' and 'The Politics of Beauty'. He teaches at Chelsea College of Art and is the co-author of The Philistine Controversy (2002).
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Paperback. Etat : Very Good. 2009 Whitechapel Gallery paperback edition. Light reading wear else very good condition. Contents: THE REVIVAL OF BEAUTY Dave Hickey Enter the Dragon: On the Vernacular of Beauty Kathleen Marie Higgins Whatever Happened to Beauty? A Response to Danto Elaine Scarry On Beauty and Being Just Wendy Steiner Venus in Exile: The Rejection of Beauty in Twentieth-Century Art Suzanne Perling Hudson Beauty and the Status of Contemporary Criticism Saul Ostrow The Eternal Problem of Beauty's Return Arthur C. Danto The Aesthetics of Brillo Boxes Alexander Alberro Beauty Knows No Pain Diarmuid Costello, Arthur C. Danto, Anna Dezeuze, Martin Donougho, Thierry de Duve, James Elkins, David Raskin, Dominic Willsdon, Richard Woodfield The Art Seminar CONCEPTS AND CONTEXTS Theodor Adorno On the Concept of the Beautiful Jacques Derrida The Sans of the Pure Cut Griselda Pollock Woman as Sign: Psychoanalytic Readings Jay Bernstein Beauty and the Labour of Mourning Fredric Jameson Transformations of the Image in Postmodernity Thierry de Duve Kant after Duchamp Jason Gaiger Incidental and Integral Beauty: Duchamp, Danto and the Intractable Avant-Garde T.J. Clark Vulgarity Caroline A. Jones The Discourse of the Studio Meets the Technological Sublime John Roberts Replicants and Cartesians Mark Cousins The Ugly Mark Hutchinson Nausea: Encounters with Ugliness Simon O'Sullivan Art and the Political: Minor Literature, War Machines and the Production of Subjectivity POSITIONS Rosalind Krauss The Photographic Conditions of Surrealism Benjamin H.D. Buchloh Robert Morris's Paradoxes Robert Smithson An Aesthetics of Disappointment Andy Warhol On Beauty Rasheed Araeen Cultural Imperialism: Observations on Cultural Situation in the Third World Gerhard Richter Notes Paul Wood Truth and Beauty: The Ruined Abstraction of Gerhard Richter Leon Golub and Nancy Spero Interview with Adrian Searle Agnes Martin Interview with Irving Sandler Alex Katz Interview with David Sylvester John Currin Interview with Robert Rosenblum Wendy Steiner On Marlene Dumas Art & Language On Painting Rudolf Sagmeister Endangered Beauty: On Gary Hume Christoph Grunenberg Attraction-Repulsion Machines: The Art of Jake and Dinos Chapman Vito Acconci Interview with Bryant Rousseau Leo Fitzmaurice Beauty (a list of possibilities). N° de réf. du vendeur 9U-49NL-004Q
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Softcover. Etat : Like New. Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Book in excellent unread/unused condition. See images. Fantastic book. About the book >.>.> In recent decades artists have progressively expanded the boundaries of art as they have sought to engage with an increasingly pluralistic environment. Teaching, curating and understanding of art and visual culture are likewise no longer grounded in traditional aesthetics but centred on significant ideas, topics and themes ranging from the everyday to the uncanny, the psychoanalytical to the political. The Documents of Contemporary Art series emerges from this context. Each volume focuses on a specific subject or body of writing that has been of key influence in contemporary art internationally. Edited and introduced by a scholar. artist, critic or curator, each of these source books provides access to a plurality of voices and perspectives defining a significant theme or tendency. For over a century the Whitechapel Gallery has offered a public platform for art and ideas. In the same spirit, each guest editor represents a distinct yet diverse approach - rather than one institutional position or school of thought- and has conceived each volume to ad. N° de réf. du vendeur Batch-FM313-LN-7746
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