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29. Die Ästhetik

  • Regine Prange and Gerd Prange
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Handbuch Rhetorik der Bildenden Künste
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Abstract

Since its beginning, art has been connected to systems which, while explaining phenomena of reality, at the same time explain phenomena of art. Art shapes already-established contents as mythological and religious ones. These contents are represented in artistic creations. The emerging new social position of citizenship is expressed through new ways of explaining reality in science and philosophy. In Descartes’ theory of cognition, the human subject and his capability to think logically and clearly gains the central position. In his Aesthetica, Baumgarten inserts beauty into the systems of science. Beauty becomes a path to knowledge, but one that is not as clear and logical as the philosophical path. Baumgarten defines it by assimilating it to the model of science found in rhetoric. Kant enlarges this capacity of beauty’s cognition by introducing the ideas of the genius and the sublime, where sensuality is connected with morality. In his philosophical system, Hegel defines aesthetics as a means of achieving true and complete cognition, yet only in a specific historical period. Thus, this new science is again separated from the rhetorics model.

Abstract

Since its beginning, art has been connected to systems which, while explaining phenomena of reality, at the same time explain phenomena of art. Art shapes already-established contents as mythological and religious ones. These contents are represented in artistic creations. The emerging new social position of citizenship is expressed through new ways of explaining reality in science and philosophy. In Descartes’ theory of cognition, the human subject and his capability to think logically and clearly gains the central position. In his Aesthetica, Baumgarten inserts beauty into the systems of science. Beauty becomes a path to knowledge, but one that is not as clear and logical as the philosophical path. Baumgarten defines it by assimilating it to the model of science found in rhetoric. Kant enlarges this capacity of beauty’s cognition by introducing the ideas of the genius and the sublime, where sensuality is connected with morality. In his philosophical system, Hegel defines aesthetics as a means of achieving true and complete cognition, yet only in a specific historical period. Thus, this new science is again separated from the rhetorics model.

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter I
  2. Vorwort der Reihenherausgeber V
  3. Inhaltsverzeichnis VII
  4. Abkürzungsverzeichnis XI
  5. 0. Einführung 1
  6. Grundlegung
  7. 1. Ut pictura poesis 45
  8. 2. Die Gattung der Ekphrasis 63
  9. Antike
  10. 3. Künstler und Gesellschaft in der Antike 91
  11. 4. Rhetorik und Kunsttheorie in der Antike 111
  12. 5. Die Rhetorik der griechischen Skulptur 125
  13. Mittelalter
  14. 6. Künstler und Gesellschaft im Mittelalter 151
  15. 7. Kunst, Kunsttheorie und Rhetorik im Mittelalter 169
  16. 8. Rhetoric and Artistry in Early Byzantium 185
  17. 9. Giotto di Bondone 207
  18. Renaissance und Manierismus
  19. 10. Künstler und Gesellschaft in Renaissance und Manierismus 229
  20. 11. Leon Battista Alberti (1404–1472): De Pictura 253
  21. 12. Giorgio Vasaris Vite 269
  22. 13. Der Paragone 283
  23. 14. Die Malerei der Renaissance und des Manierismus 313
  24. 15. Die Skulptur der Renaissance und des Manierismus 337
  25. 16. Die Architektur der Renaissance und des Manierismus 367
  26. 17. Die Grafik der Renaissance und des Manierismus 389
  27. Barock und Klassizismus
  28. 18. Künstler und Gesellschaft im Barock 417
  29. 19. Die Kunsttheorie des Barock 435
  30. 20. Die Kunsttheorie des Klassizismus 451
  31. 21. Die Malerei des Barock 471
  32. 22. Barocke Deckenmalerei 495
  33. 23. Die Skulptur des Barock und Rokoko 513
  34. 24. Barockarchitektur und Rhetorik: Das Berliner Schloss 535
  35. 25. Die Allegorie 555
  36. 26. Barocke Thesenblätter 577
  37. 27. Das Erhabene 595
  38. Moderne und Postmoderne
  39. 28. Künstler und Gesellschaft in Moderne und Postmoderne 631
  40. 29. Die Ästhetik 657
  41. 30. Spuren der Rhetorik in romantischen Entwürfen einer Theorie der bildenden Künste 671
  42. 31. Die Gegenwart unter dem Versprechen künftiger Epiphanie. Baudelaire und Apollinaire über die Moderne als sich selbst unbekannte Epoche 691
  43. 32. Die Kunstgeschichte 711
  44. 33. Malerei als politisches Medium: David, Goya, Delacroix, Courbet 729
  45. 34. Die Rhetorik des Denkmals 749
  46. 35. Die Karikatur 773
  47. 36. Zur Rhetorik in der Kunst der Postmoderne 797
  48. Die Beiträgerinnen und Beiträger 819
  49. Abbildungsnachweise 825
  50. Index 829
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