Overview

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?

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Author:   James Elkins (School of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 13.80cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.590kg
ISBN:  

9780415976893

ISBN 10:   0415976898
Pages:   320
Publication Date:   27 October 2005
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Series Preface , by James Elkins 1. INTRODUCTORY ESSAY Robert Gero, The Border of the Aesthetic 2. STARTING POINTS Joseph Margolis, Exorcising the Dreariness of Aesthetics James Elkins, Why Don't Art Historians Attend Aesthetics Conferences? 3. THE ART SEMINAR Participants: Arthur Danto, Thierry De Duve, Diarmuid Costello, Martin Donougho, David Raskin, Anna Dezeuze, Richard Woodfield, Dominic Willsdon, Francis Halsall, Nicholas Davey, John Hyman, David Raskin 4. ASSESSMENTS Diarmuid Costello Anna Dezeuze Dominic Willsdon David Raskin John Hyman Francis Halsall Richard Woodfield Ladislav Kesner Joseph Margolis Crispin Sartwell Paul Crowther Mary Rawlinson Jan Bakos Alexander Nehamas Ciarán Benson Wendy Steiner Mathew Rampley Keith Moxey Christine Wertheim Eva Schürmann Harry Cooper Adrian Rifkin David Getsy Michael Kelly Margaret Iversen Michael Golec Michael Newman Gregg Horowitz Stephen Melville 5. AFTERWORDS Jay Bernstein, Modernism as Aesthetics and Art History Marc Redfield, Island Mysteries Notes on Contributors

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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 WhatPainting Is and, most recently, The Strange Place ofReligion in Contemporary Art and Master Narratives andTheir Discontents, all published by Routledge.

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