Elkins Art History Versus Aesthetics

Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-1-135-50692-6
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 320 Seiten

Reihe: The Art Seminar

In this unprecedented collection, over twenty of the world's most prominent thinkers on the subject including Arthur Danto, Stephen Melville, Wendy Steiner, Alexander Nehamas, and Jay Bernstein ponder the disconnect between these two disciplines. The volume has a radically innovative structure: it begins with introductions, and centres on an animated conversation among ten historians and aestheticians. That conversation was then sent to twenty scholars for commentary and their responses are very diverse: some are informal letters and others full essays with footnotes. Some think they have the answer in hand, and others raise yet more questions. The volume ends with two synoptic essays, one by a prominent aesthetician and the other by a literary critic.

This stimulating inaugural volume in the Routledge The Art Seminar series presents not one but many answers to the question; Does philosophy have anything to say to art history?

Autoren/Hrsg.

Elkins, James

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ästhetik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Series Preface, by James Elkins

1. INTRODUCTORY ESSAY
Robert Gero, "The Border of the Aesthetic"

2. STARTING POINTS
Joseph Margolis, "Exorcising the Dreariness of Aesthetics"

James Elkins, "Why Don't Art Historians Attend Aesthetics Conferences?"

3. THE ART SEMINAR
Participants: Arthur Danto, Thierry De Duve, Diarmuid Costello,

Martin Donougho, David Raskin, Anna Dezeuze, Richard Woodfield,

Dominic Willsdon, Francis Halsall, Nicholas Davey,

John Hyman, David Raskin

4. ASSESSMENTS
Diarmuid Costello

Anna Dezeuze

Dominic Willsdon

David Raskin

John Hyman

Francis Halsall

Richard Woodfield

Ladislav Kesner

Joseph Margolis

Crispin Sartwell

Paul Crowther

Mary Rawlinson

Jan Bakos

Alexander Nehamas

Ciarán Benson

Wendy Steiner

Mathew Rampley

Keith Moxey

Christine Wertheim

Eva Schürmann

Harry Cooper

Adrian Rifkin

David Getsy

Michael Kelly

Margaret Iversen

Michael Golec

Michael Newman

Gregg Horowitz

Stephen Melville

5. AFTERWORDS
Jay Bernstein, "Modernism as Aesthetics and Art History"

Marc Redfield, "Island Mysteries"

Notes on Contributors

Über Autor(innen)

James Elkins is E.C. Chadbourne Chair in the Department of Art History, Theory, and Criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and Head of History of Art at the University College Cork, Ireland. He is the author of Pictures and Tears, How to Use Your Eyes, and What Painting Is and, most recently, The Strange Place of Religion in Contemporary Art and Master Narratives and Their Discontents, all published by Routledge.