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Record Nr.

UNINA9910143542703321

Autore

Doorman Maarten

Titolo

Art in progress : a philosophical response to the end of the avant-garde / / by Maarten Doorman ; translated from the Dutch by Sherry Marx

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam, : Amsterdam University Press, 2003

Amsterdam : , : Amsterdam University Press, , [2003]

©2004

ISBN

9786610958825

9781280958823

1280958820

9789048505135

9048505135

9780585495378

0585495378

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (181 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Altri autori (Persone)

MarxSherry

Disciplina

111.85

Soggetti

Aesthetics

Progress

Avant-garde (Aesthetics)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 15 Jan 2021).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Foreword / Doorman, Maarten -- Introduction -- 1. Perspectives On Progress: A History -- 2. From The Ancients And The Moderns: A Door To The Future -- 3. From Romanticism To The Avant-Garde -- 4. On Making Revolution -- 5. Innovation In Painting And Architecture: De Stijl -- 6. The End Of Art -- 7. A New Approach To An Old Concept -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index Of Names

Sommario/riassunto

In this challenging essay, Maarten Doorman argues that in art, belief in progress is still relevant, if not essential. The radical freedoms of postmodernism, he claims, have had a crippling effect on art, leaving it in danger of becoming meaningless. Art can only acquire meaning through context; the concept of progress, then, is ideal as the primary



criterion for establishing that context. The history of art, in fact, can be seen as a process of constant accumulation, works of art commenting on one another and enriching one another's meanings. It is these complex interrelationships and the progress they create in both art and its observers that Doorman, in a display of great philosophical erudition, defends.