Social Theories of Art - A Critique

This elegantly written book explores the tension between the theory and practice of art, taking issue with the approaches of the New Art History and its deconstructionist critics. It critically examines influential social theories of art from the viewpoint of the artworlds they target and, through a consideration of work by Rorty, Bauman, Gadamer and others, develops a new and fruitful set of connections between ethical, social and art theory that gives central importance to reflexivity as a living and problematic, as well as a theoretical, concept.>

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Art's World and the Social World
Towards a Critical Sociology of Art?
The Critical Theory of Art: Modernism and Violence Pragmatism, Individuation and Totalisation
Fields, Movements and Histories
Varieties of Theory and Practice
Reflection, Theory and Language Hermeneutics, Aesthetics and Art: Gadamer and Modernism
Language and the Singularity of Art
Conclusion.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Ian Heywood

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Ian Heywood
• Verlag: Macmillan
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 30.09.1997
• EAN: 9780333668955
• ISBN: 978-0-333-66895-5
• Seiten: 230
• Serie: Critique
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Pädagogik > Allgemeines, Lexika; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Sozialwissenschaften allgemein