Beyond the aesthetic and the anti-aesthetic / / edited by James Elkins and Harper Montgomery

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910790890403321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: University Park, Pennsylvania : , : Pennsylvania State University Press, , [2013]; ©2013
• ISBN: 0-271-06095-6; 0-271-06317-3
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (247 p.)
• Collana: The stone art theory institutes ; ; Volume 4
• Disciplina: 701.17
• Soggetti: Aesthetics; Modernism (Aesthetics); Art - Philosophy
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Conversations from a series of seminars held at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, July 18-24, 2010.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Moving Beyond: Aesthetics and Politics (Jon Simons)""""The Aesthetic, the Anti-Aesthetic, and Then What?: Why Answering this Question Involves Thinking About Art as Labor (Angela Dimitrakaki)""; ""Afterword: The Bathwater and the Baby (Gretchen Bakke)""; ""Notes on the Contributors""; ""Index""; ""COVER Back""
• Sommario/riassunto: "Gathers historians, philosophers, critics, curators, and artists to explore the divisions in teaching, practice, and theorization of art created by the choice between continuations of Modernism, with its aesthetic values, and the many kinds of postmodernism, which privilege issues outside aesthetics, including politics, gender, and identity"--Provided by publisher.