Critical aesthetics and postmodernism / / Paul Crowther

• Autore: Crowther Paul
• Pubblicazione: Oxford, : Clarendon Press; New York, : Oxford University Press, 1993
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xiii, 214 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 111/.85
• Soggetto topico: Postmodernism; Aesthetics; Aesthetics, Modern - 20th century
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction. Experience and Mechanical Reproduction -- PART ONE -- 1. From Différance to Embodiment: Subjectivity and Symbolic Formations -- 2. Merleau-Ponty: Perception into Art -- 3. Beyond Formalism: Kant's Theory of Art -- 4. The Producer as Artist -- 5. Violence in Painting -- PART TWO -- 6. The Existential Sublime: From Burke's Aesthetics to the Socio-Political -- 7. Moral Insight and Aesthetic Experience: Kant's Theory of the Sublime -- 8. The Kantian Sublime, the Postmodern, and the Avant-Garde -- 9. Sublimity and Postmodern Culture: Lyotard's Les Immatériaux -- PART THREE -- 10. Postmodernism in the Visual Arts: A Question of Ends -- 11. Creativity, Contemporary Art, and Critical Aesthetics.
• Sommario/riassunto: Kant's theory of the sublime has become one of the most keenly studied elements in both his own aesthetics and aesthetic theory in general. This book offers a sustained analysis of Kant's theory of the sublime as found throughout his critical philosophy.
• Titolo autorizzato: Critical aesthetics and postmodernism
• ISBN: 0-19-159726-0; 0-19-151957-X; 9786612051937; 1-282-05193-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910959209503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II