Uncontrollable Beauty
Toward a New Aesthetics
Published on 1. October 2001
999 pages
978-1-62153-111-1 (ISBN)
Description
In this acclaimed art anthology, a prestigious group of artists, critics, and literati offer their incisive reflections on the questions of beauty, past, present, and future, and how it has become a domain of multiple perspectives.
Here is Meyer Schapiro's skeptical argument on perfection . . . contributions from artists as profound as Louise Bourgeois and Agnes Martin . . . and reflections of critics, curators, and philosophers on the problems of beauty and relativism. Readers will find fascinating insights from such art theorists and critics as Dave Hickey, Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe, Donald Kuspit, Carter Ratcliff, and dozens more.
Here is Meyer Schapiro's skeptical argument on perfection . . . contributions from artists as profound as Louise Bourgeois and Agnes Martin . . . and reflections of critics, curators, and philosophers on the problems of beauty and relativism. Readers will find fascinating insights from such art theorists and critics as Dave Hickey, Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe, Donald Kuspit, Carter Ratcliff, and dozens more.
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Content
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Introduction: Generosity and the Black Swan
- Preface
- Le Livre est sur la table
- I. THEORY
- On Perfection, Coherence, and Unity of Form and Content
- Enter the Dragon: On the Vernacular of Beauty
- Beauty and Morality
- Beauty and the Contemporary Sublime
- Notes on Beauty
- Contratemplates
- A Sign of Beauty
- On Platonic Cosmetics
- Freud with Kant? The Enigma of Pleasure
- Arousal by Image
- II. OWNERSHIP
- Doctor Lawyer Indian Chief: "Primitivism" in Twentieth-Century Art at the Museum of Modern Art in 1984
- On "Doctor Lawyer Indian Chief: 'Primitivism' in Twentieth-Century Art at the Museum of Modern Art in 1984"
- On "Doctor Lawyer Indian Chief": Part II
- On the Claims and Critics of the "Primitivism" Show
- III. PRACTICE
- The Practice of Beauty
- Ode to Willem de Kooning
- Venus Unveiled: De Kooning's Melodrama of Vulgarity
- The Mind and Body of the Dreamer
- Mondrian's Secret
- A Conversation between Julia Kristeva and Ariane Lopez-Huici
- Sunday Afternoons: A Conversation and a Remark on Beauty
- Sentences on the House and Other Sentences
- Aunts
- On Beauty
- An Aesthetic of the Cool
- The Violet Hour: An Essay on Beauty
- Beauty Is the Mystery of Life
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Credits
- Index
- Books From Allworth Press
