Aesthetics, Philosophy and Martin Creed

What is the future of conceptualism? What expressions can it take in the 21st century? Is there a new role for aesthetic experience in art and, if so, what is that role exactly? Aesthetics, Philosophy and Martin Creed uses one of this generation''s most important and influential artists to address themes crucial to contemporary aesthetics. Working in an impressive variety of artistic media, Creed represents a strikingly innovative take on conceptualism. Through his ingenious and thought-provoking work, a team of international philosophers, jurists and art historians illustrate how Creed epitomizes several questions central to philosophical aesthetics today and provides a glimpse of the future both of art and aesthetic discourse. They discuss key concepts for Creed''s work, including immediacy (in his photographs of smiling people), compositional order (in his geometric paintings), simplicity (in Work No. 218, a sheet paper crumpled into a ball) and shamelessness (in his videos of vomiting people). By bringing a working artist into the heart of academic discussions, Aesthetics, Philosophy and Martin Creed highlights the relevance of philosophical discussions of art to understanding art today.>

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• Authors: Davide Dal Sasso, Dr Elisabeth Sasso Schellekens, Elisabeth Schellekens, Elisabeth Sasso Schellekens
• Assisted by: Tiziana Andina (Editor), David Carrier (Editor), Elisabeth Schellekens Dammann (Editor), Davide Dal Sasso (Editor), Elisabeth Schellekens (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9781350009257
• ISBN: 978-1-350-00925-7
• No. of pages: 192
• Series: Aesthetics and Contemporary Art; Aesthetics and Contemporary Ar; Aesthetics and Contemporary Ar; Aesthetics and Contemporary Art
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art; Theory of art, PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics, ART / Criticism & Theory, Philosophy: aesthetics