The Life and Death of Images
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by Diarmuid Costello Thierry de Duve Dominic Willsdon Howard Caygill W. J. T. Mitchell Griselda Pollock Noel Carroll Adrian Piper Jay M. Bernstein Judith Butler
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The Life and Death of Images
Exchanges on Art and Culture
by Author Name Diarmuid Costello, Thierry de Duve, Dominic Willsdon, Howard Caygill, W. J. T. Mitchell, Griselda Pollock, Noel Carroll, Adrian Piper, Jay M. Bernstein, Judith Butler
- Book details for title
- List Price: €20.00
- Format: Paperback, 234 x 156mm, 256pp
- Publication date: 01 Mar 2008
- Publisher: Tate Publishing
- ISBN-13: 9781854376589
Description
From the 1970s to the early-1990s, the discourse surrounding aesthetics largely disappeared from the study of art history, theory and cultural studies. Claims for the aesthetic value of art-works were thought of as elitist and politically regressive. The 1990s witnessed a return to aesthetics, but one that stressed the independent claims of beauty, in reaction to its perceived suppression by ethical and political imperatives. However, beauty is just one aspect of the aesthetic. In recent years, increasing attention has been given to the ways in which aesthetics and ethics are intertwined. In a series of paired essays and responses, a group of the English-speaking world's most distinguished thinkers consider this 'new' aesthetics, demonstrating its cross-disciplinary relevance in terms accessible to a non-specialist readership.
Additional Information
- Illustrations: 40 black-&-white illustrations