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2 Aesthetics and the Two Cultures Why Art and Science Should Be Allowed to Go Their Separate Ways
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James Elkins
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Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
- Contributors ix
- (Re)Discovering Aesthetics An Introduction 1
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Part I Aesthetics in Art History and Art Theory
- 1 Kunstwissenschaft versus Ästhetik The Historians’ Revolt Against Aesthetics 19
- 2 Aesthetics and the Two Cultures Why Art and Science Should Be Allowed to Go Their Separate Ways 34
- 3 Stones of Solace 51
- 4 The Dogma of Conviction 66
- 5 Sensation in the Wild On Not Naming Newman, Judd, Riley, and Serra 75
- 6 Kant’s “Free- Play” in the Light of Minimal Art 87
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Part II Aesthetics in Philosophy
- 7 The Future of Aesthetics 103
- 8 Retrieving Kant’s Aesthetics for Art Theory After Greenberg Some Remarks on Arthur C. Danto and Thierry de Duve 117
- 9 Artistic Creativity Illusions, Realities, Futures 133
- 10 Gadamer and the Ambiguity of Appearance 147
- 11 Modernisms and Mediations 163
- 12 Aesthetics Beyond Aesthetics 178
- 13 Intuition and Concrete Particularity in Kant’s Transcendental Aesthetic 193
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Part III Aesthetics in Artistic and Curatorial Practice
- 14 Seasonal Fractional Political Idiosyncratic Aesthetics 213
- 15 Toward an Ophthalmology of the Aesthetic and an Orthopedics of Seeing 225
- 16 The Social Turn Collaboration and Its Discontents 238
- 17 The Richter Effect on the Regeneration of Aesthetics 256
- Notes 275
- Index 313
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
- Contributors ix
- (Re)Discovering Aesthetics An Introduction 1
-
Part I Aesthetics in Art History and Art Theory
- 1 Kunstwissenschaft versus Ästhetik The Historians’ Revolt Against Aesthetics 19
- 2 Aesthetics and the Two Cultures Why Art and Science Should Be Allowed to Go Their Separate Ways 34
- 3 Stones of Solace 51
- 4 The Dogma of Conviction 66
- 5 Sensation in the Wild On Not Naming Newman, Judd, Riley, and Serra 75
- 6 Kant’s “Free- Play” in the Light of Minimal Art 87
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Part II Aesthetics in Philosophy
- 7 The Future of Aesthetics 103
- 8 Retrieving Kant’s Aesthetics for Art Theory After Greenberg Some Remarks on Arthur C. Danto and Thierry de Duve 117
- 9 Artistic Creativity Illusions, Realities, Futures 133
- 10 Gadamer and the Ambiguity of Appearance 147
- 11 Modernisms and Mediations 163
- 12 Aesthetics Beyond Aesthetics 178
- 13 Intuition and Concrete Particularity in Kant’s Transcendental Aesthetic 193
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Part III Aesthetics in Artistic and Curatorial Practice
- 14 Seasonal Fractional Political Idiosyncratic Aesthetics 213
- 15 Toward an Ophthalmology of the Aesthetic and an Orthopedics of Seeing 225
- 16 The Social Turn Collaboration and Its Discontents 238
- 17 The Richter Effect on the Regeneration of Aesthetics 256
- Notes 275
- Index 313