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The Life and Death of Images: Exchanges on Art and Culture (Paperback)
$22.64 - Save $1.20 (5%) - RRP $23.84 Free delivery worldwide (to United States and
all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 24 hours | |Short Description for The Life and Death of ImagesFrom the 1970s to the early-1990s, the discourse surrounding aesthetics 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. This work considers this aesthetics, demonstrating its cross-disciplinary relevance.
Full description- Publisher: TATE PUBLISHING
- Published: 01 March 2008
- Format: Paperback 256 pages
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- Categories: Art Theory | Art History
- ISBN 13: 9781854376589 ISBN 10: 1854376586
- Sales rank: 348,799
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Full description for The Life and Death of Images
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.
