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Author:   Tom Huhn (School of Visual Arts)
Publisher:   Pennsylvania State University Press
Imprint:   Pennsylvania State University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.481kg
ISBN:  

9780271024684

ISBN 10:   0271024682
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   20 September 2004
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Contents Acknowledgments Introduction1. Burke and the Ambitions of TastePrologueI. Introducing TasteII. Delight, or the Labor Theory of PleasureIII. Sensation and SensibilityIV. Shaftesbury and the  Charm of Confederation V. SympathyVI. AmbitionVII. Spectatorship2. Hogarth and the Lineage of TastePrologueI. The Epistemology of LinesII. The Eye for PleasureIII. Dance and the Movement from Vision to ImaginationIV. Eye and Mind3. Kant and the Pleasures of TastePrologueI. Activating SensibilityII. Determining Reflective JudgmentIII. Phantom Sensations and Mistaken SubjectsIV. Representative PleasuresV. Opaque Pleasures Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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Huhn's study is exactly what one hopes for from scholarly monographs - it is a learned and incredibly well-informed exposition of major figures in intellectual and artistic history, coupled with an exciting and innovative new perspective.... This is one of those wonderful books that one can recommend to anyone interested in either Burke, Hogarth, or Kant - as well as anyone interested in Adorno, contemporary aesthetics, or the theory of mimesis. - S. Barnett, Choice Tom Huhn has written a riveting, brilliant book about mimesis in eighteenth-century aesthetic theory. In a series of nuanced analyses, Huhn demonstrates that Burke, Hogarth, and Kant were in effect producing aesthetic theories that were fully modernist. Art and/or aesthetic experience emerges in them as the revelation of the suppression of nature and sensuous experience, and of the conflictual social relations responsible for that suppression. Huhn's account of Hogarth on drawing is simply irreplaceable. - Jay Bernstein, The New School

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Tom Huhn teaches aesthetics and philosophy at the School of Visual Arts in New York.

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