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Critical aesthetics and postmodernism /
In recent times considerable controversy has raged around the question of postmodern culture and its products. Paul Crowther attempts to overcome some of the antagonistic viewpoints involved by expounding and developing key themes from the work of Kant and Merleau-Ponty in the context of contemporar...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford : New York :
Clarendon Press ; Oxford Univ. Press,
©1993.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | In recent times considerable controversy has raged around the question of postmodern culture and its products. Paul Crowther attempts to overcome some of the antagonistic viewpoints involved by expounding and developing key themes from the work of Kant and Merleau-Ponty in the context of contemporary culture. His work analyses topics such as the relation between art and politics, the problematics of poststructuralist and feminist approaches to art, the re-emergence and relevance of theories of the sublime, and the continuing possibilities of artistic creativity. The central theme of the book is that there are constants in human experience around which art and philosophy constellate. At the same time, however, due account must be given of the ways in which such constants are historically mediated. By articulating various aspects of this relation, Crowther shows that the postmodern sensibility can be more than that of an alienated consumerism. Understood in the proper theoretical context, it is grounded on experience and artefacts which humanize. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiii, 214 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780191519574 019151957X 9780191597268 0191597260 9780198236238 0198236239 9786612051937 6612051930 1282051938 9781282051935 |