Beauty / 
[Whitechapel London. Ed. by Dave Beech]. 
 - Cambridge, MA :  MIT Press [u.a.],  2009. 
 - 238 S. 
 - Documents of contemporary art .
<br/><br/> Beauty is among the most hotly contested subjects in current discussions on art and culture. After decades of disavowal, beauty\'s resurgence in recent art has engaged some of the most influential artists and writers. Spanning diverse positions, this anthology assembles the key texts on the cultural politics of this recent phenomenon, as well as contextualizing these debates   both for and against   in artistic practice and the broader history of  aesthetics.    Artists surveyed include Vito Acconci, Jake and Dinos Chapman, Gustave Courbet, Marcel Duchamp, Marlene Dumas, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Adolph Gottlieb, Hans Hofmann, Gary Hume, Asger Jorn, Alex Katz, Willem de Kooning, Joseph Kosuth, Paul McCarthy, Édouard Manet, Robert Mapplethorpe, Agnes Martin, Robert Morris, Barnett Newman, Pablo Picasso, Jackson Pollock, Gerhard Richter, Mark Rothko, Robert Smithson, Nancy Spero, Frank Stella, Clyfford Still and Andy Warhol.  Writers include Theodor Adorno, Alexander Alberro, Rasheed Araeen, Art & Language, Benjamin H. D. Buchloh, T. J. Clark, Mark Cousins, Arthur C. Danto, Jacques Derrida, Thierry de Duve, Fredric Jameson, Christoph Grunenberg, Dave Hickey, Suzanne Perling Hudson, Caroline A. Jones, John Roberts, Elaine Scarry, Wendy Steiner and Paul Wood.    Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0262512386 9780262512381 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2008036627 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Documents of contemporary art <br/>Art--Philosophy.<br/>Aesthetics, Modern--20th century.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>709.04 WHI