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Against aesthetic exceptionalism /

Here, Arne De Boever proposes the notion of aesthetic exceptionalism to describe the widespread belief that art and artists are exceptional. Against Aesthetic Exceptionalism challenges that belief by focusing on the sovereign artist as genius, as well as the original artwork as the foundation of the...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: De Boever, Arne (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press, [2019]
Series:Forerunners (Minneapolis, Minn.)
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Introduction: The Toporovski Affair; 1. Aesthetic and Political Exceptionalism; 2. Democratic Exceptionalisms (On Sam Durant's Scaffold); 3. Against Monarchical Art: Alex Robbins's "Complements"; 4. The Democratic Anarchy of Unexceptional Art; 5. Complement: Naked Painting (On the Work of Becky Kolsrud); Conclusion: Unexceptional Rubens; Acknowledgments