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Record Nr.

UNINA9910783728403321

Autore

Mattick Paul <1944, >

Titolo

Art in its time : theories and practices of modern aesthetics / / Paul Mattick

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2003

ISBN

1-134-55415-X

1-134-55416-8

0-415-23921-4

0-203-41783-6

1-280-07141-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (198 p.)

Disciplina

700/.1/03

Soggetti

Art and society

Aesthetics, Modern

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; Preface; Introduction; Some masks of modernism; Art and money; Beautiful and sublime; The rationalization of art; Mechanical reproduction in the age of art; Pork and porcelain; The aesthetics of anti-aesthetics; The Andy Warhol of philosophy and the philosophy of Andy Warhol; The avant-garde in fashion; Classless taste; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This is an exciting exploration of the role art plays in our lives. Mattick takes the question ""What is art?"" as a basis for a discussion of the nature of art, he asks what meaning art can have and to whom in the present order.