Art history versus aesthetics / edited by James Elkins.

Contributor(s):

Elkins, James, 1955-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: London : Routledge, 2006.Description: 288 pISBN:

0415976898 (pbk.)

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DDC classification:

701.17 ELK

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Standard Loan	LSAD Library Main Collection	701.17 ELK (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		39002100320374

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

In this unprecedented collection, over twenty of the world's most prominent thinkers on the subject including Arthur Danto, Stephen Melville, Wendy Steiner, Alexander Nehamas, and Jay Bernstein ponder the disconnect between these two disciplines. The volume has a radically innovative structure: it begins with introductions, and centres on an animated conversation among ten historians and aestheticians. That conversation was then sent to twenty scholars for commentary and their responses are very diverse: some are informal letters and others full essays with footnotes. Some think they have the answer in hand, and others raise yet more questions. The volume ends with two synoptic essays, one by a prominent aesthetician and the other by a literary critic.

This stimulating inaugural volume in the Routledge The Art Seminar series presents not one but many answers to the question; Does philosophy have anything to say to art history?

Selected conference papers.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

Series Preface (p. vii)
Section 1 Introduction
The Border of the Aesthetic (p. 3)
Section 2 Starting Points
Exorcising the Dreariness of Aesthetics (p. 21)
Why Don't Art Historians Attend Aesthetics Conferences? (p. 39)
Section 3 The Art Seminar (p. 51)
Section 4 Assessments (p. 91)
Diarmuid Costello (p. 92)
Anna Dezeuze (p. 98)
Dominic Willsdon (p. 101)
David Raskin (p. 102)
John Hyman (p. 103)
Francis Halsall (p. 106)
Richard Woodfield (p. 110)
Ladislav Kesner (p. 114)
Joseph Margolis (p. 118)
Crispin Sartwell (p. 120)
Paul Crowther (p. 123)
Mary Rawlinson (p. 128)
Jan Bakos (p. 144)
Alexander Nehamas (p. 145)
Ciaran Benson (p. 155)
Wendy Steiner (p. 158)
Mathew Rampley (p. 161)
Keith Moxey (p. 166)
Christine Wertheim (p. 172)
Eva Schurmann (p. 181)
Harry Cooper (p. 185)
Adrian Rifkin (p. 186)
David J. Getsy (p. 194)
Michael Kelly (p. 196)
Margaret Iversen (p. 202)
Michael J. Golec (p. 204)
Michael Newman (p. 207)
Gregg M. Horowitz (p. 211)
Stephen Melville (p. 220)
Section 5 Afterwords
Modernism as Aesthetics and Art History (p. 241)
Island Mysteries (p. 269)
Notes on Contributors (p. 291)
Index (p. 301)

Author notes provided by Syndetics

James Elkins is E.C. Chadbourne Chair in the Department of Art History, Theory, and Criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and Head of History of Art at the University College Cork, Ireland. He is the author of Pictures and Tears, How to Use Your Eyes, and What Painting Is and, most recently, The Strange Place of Religion in Contemporary Art and Master Narratives and Their Discontents, all published by Routledge.

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