The Aesthetics of Uncertainty
Feminism, poststructuralism, postcolonialism, Marxism, and other critical approaches have undermined traditional notions of aesthetics in recent decades. But questions of aesthetic judgment and pleasure persist, and many critics now seek a "return to...
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Feminism, poststructuralism, postcolonialism, Marxism, and other critical approaches have undermined traditional notions of aesthetics in recent decades. But questions of aesthetic judgment and pleasure persist, and many critics now seek a "return to aesthetics" or a "return to beauty." Janet Wolff advances a "post-critical" aesthetics grounded in shared values that are negotiated in the context of community, relating this to contemporary debates about a committed politics similarly founded on abandonment of certainty. Neither universalist nor relativist, the "aesthetics of uncertainty" provides a discourse on beauty that contemporary critics can engage with and offers a basis for judgment that is committed to assigning value to works of art.
AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Desire for Certainty-and the Timeliness of Doubt1. Groundless Beauty: Feminism and the Aesthetics of Uncertainty2. English Art and Principled Aesthetics3. The Iconic and the Allusive: The Case for Beauty in Post-Holocaust Art4. The Impolite Boarder: Kitaj's "Diasporist" Art and Its Critical Response5. "Degenerate Art" in Britain: Refugees, Internees and Visual Culture6. The Sociological ImageAfterword: Aesthetics and Ethics in the Twenty-first CenturyNotesIndex
- Autor: Janet Wolff
- Altersempfehlung: Ab 22 Jahre
- 2008, 184 Seiten, Maße: 15,7 x 20,6 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: COLUMBIA UNIV PR
- ISBN-10: 0231140967
- ISBN-13: 9780231140966
"Wolff writes with admirable lucidity, especially notable in a field where textual murkiness is not uncommon. She is a very disciplined writer, combining a remarkable economy of means with elegance." -- Bernie Gendron, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
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