Aesthetic Thinking: Essays on Intention, Painting, Action, and Ideology

Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-90-04-50329-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 247, 192 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 491 g

Reihe: Historical Materialism Book Series

Fred Orton’s teaching and writing has always combined theoretical and formal – which is to say structural - analysis with historical research and reflection. This collection of essays – rewritten studies of Paul Cézanne, Jasper Johns, the American cultural critic Harold Rosenberg and a new essay on Marx and Engels’ notion of ideology – brings together some of his most decisive contributions to thinking about fine art practice and rethinking the theory and methods of the social history of art. More than an anthology, it offers a vivid demonstration of how theory can work to generate new interpretations and unsettle old ones.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Orton, Fred

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kultursoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Marxismus, Kommunismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunstpsychologie und -soziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

‘Present, the Scene of … Selves, the Occasion of … Ruses’: Fred Orton’s Art History

Steve Edwards

Publications by Fred Orton

1 Beginning … with Intention

2 Painting Out of Time

Symbol and Allegory

Modernist Painting

On the Motif

Sensations

A Dabbing Sensation

As If. As If.

Paul de Man, ‘The Rhetoric of Temporality’

Slack Links and Gaps

Allegory

3 Action, Revolution & Painting (Resumed)

I

II

III

IV

4 Ideology: Reading Paul de Man Reading Marx and Engels

‘The Dead-End of Formalist Criticism’ (1956)

‘Georg Lukács’s “Theory of the Novel” ’ (1966)

‘The Contemporary Criticism of Romanticism’ (1967)

‘Roland Barthes and the Limits of Structuralism’ (1972)

‘Metaphor (Second Discourse)’ (1973)

‘The Resistance to Theory’ (1982)

Excursus: Aberration

‘The Resistance to Theory’ (Continued)

Coda: Aesthetics, Rhetoric, Ideology

For the End …

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Fred Orton is Emeritus Professor of Art History and Theory, University of Leeds. His earlier books include Figuring Jasper Johns (Reaktion Books, 1994), Jasper Johns: The Sculptures (Henry Moore Sculpture Trust, 1996) and Fragments of History (Manchester University Press, 2007) with Ian Wood and Clare A. Lees.