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Beyond Aesthetics and Politics : Philosophical and Axiological Studies on the Avant-Garde, Pragmatism, and Postmodernism.
The book presents five philosophical and axiological studies devoted to the relationship between aesthetics and politics. It shows this relationship throughout the works of some avant-gardists, pragmatists, and postmodernists. It is also a voice in the discussion about the meaning of the fine arts a...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam :
Editions Rodopi,
2013.
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| Colección: | Value inquiry book series ;
vol. 264. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; PREFACE; ONE Santayana and the Avant-garde: Visual Arts in the Context of Democracy, Norms, Liberty, and Social Progress; 1. Santayana and the Avant-garde; 2. Democratic, Although Not Liberal, Character of Modern Artistic Institutions and the Avant-garde Soviets
- 3. Vital Liberty and the Penitent Arts; 4. Completion and Perfection vs. Deformation and Fragmentation (in Analytic Cubism); 5. Critique of Primitivism and Caricature (in Cubism and Expressionism).
- 6. Criticism of Using Color as a Main Medium of Artistic Expression (Fauvism)7. Classic Harmony vs. Abstractionist Harmony; 8. Imagination and Naturalism vs. Dreaming and Fiction (Surrealism); 9. Penetrating the World Rather Than Experiencing it: Problems with Expression (Expressionism); 10. Santayana as a Self-indulgent Impressionist
- 11. From the Standpoint of a Theory of Work of Art; 12. From the Standpoint of the Language of aWork of Art; 13. Conclusion: Politicization of the Foreground and the Idea of Social Progress.
- TWO Style as the Tool of Tyranny in Gombrowicz: An Avant-gardist as a Forerunner of Postmodernism1. ""I practice a private literature"": Mixing up Theory (Objectivity) with Practice (Subjectivity); 2. The Avant-gardists Mixing up Reality with Unreality; 3. Reality and Unreality: Existentialism, Post-structuralism, and Postmodernism in Gombrowicz; 4. Disintegration, Deformation, and Decay as Somatic Symptoms of the Individual''s Suffering from Unreality; 5. Pathology of Inter-human Bonds: Dialogue as a Duel, Conversation as a Confrontation.
- 6. Seduction as Abuse: Erotic Intrigue as an Execution of Power7. Virginity as Unawareness of the Relations of Power (""Virginity""); 8. Re-construction and the Re-combination of the World of Objects and Figures in Gombrowicz: BetweenDadaism and Postmodernism; 9. Auto-therapy or Becoming More Real by Means of Literary and Philosophical Creation; 10. The Political Formlessness and Impotence of the Poles. The Need of Communal Therapy; 11. Concluding Remarks: In What Way Did Gombrowicz forerun a Postmodern Approach?
- THREE Facial Images as a Way for the Articulation of Values in the Avant-garde''s Aesthetics of Deformation. Another Prelude to Postmodernism1. From Form to Formlessness; 2. What is Aesthetics of Deformation?; 3. Deformation of Facial Images as a Search for New Values (Munch); 4. Deformation of Facial Images as an Attempt at Re-formulation of the World of Values (Cubism); 5. Deformation of Facial Images as an Attempt to Undermine the Established Values (Duchamp); 6. Deformation of Facial Images as a Search for Freedom (Witkacy).