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OverviewThis book reconsiders the fate of the doctrine of mimesis in the eighteenth century. Standard accounts of the aesthetic theories of this era hold that the idea of mimesis was supplanted by the far more robust and compelling doctrines of taste and aesthetic judgment. Since the idea of mimesis was taken to apply only in the relation of art to nature, it was judged to be too limited when the focus of aesthetics changed to questions about the constitution of individual subjects in regard to taste. Tom Huhn argues that mimesis, rather than disappearing, instead became a far more pervasive idea in the eighteenth century by becoming submerged within the dynamics of the emerging accounts of judgment and taste. Mimesis also thereby became enmeshed in the ideas of sociality contained, often only implicitly, within the new accounts of aesthetic judgment. The book proceeds by reading three of the foundational treatises in aesthetics-Burke's Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful, Hogarth's Analysis of Beauty, and Kant's Critique of Judgment-with an eye for discerning where arguments and analyses betray mimetic structures. Huhn attempts to explicate these books anew by arguing that they are pervaded by a mimetic dynamic. Overall, he seeks to provoke a reconsideration of eighteenth-century aesthetics that centers on its continuity with traditional notions of mimesis. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Tom Huhn (School of Visual Arts)Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press Imprint: Pennsylvania State University Press Edition: New edition Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.340kg ISBN: 9780271029122ISBN 10: 0271029129 Pages: 224 Publication Date: 15 November 2004 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of print, replaced by POD  We will order this item for you from a manufatured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Burke and the Ambitions of Taste Prologue I. Introducing Taste II. Delight, or the Labor Theory of Pleasure III. Sensation and Sensibility IV. Shaftesbury and the Charm of Confederation V. Sympathy VI. Ambition VII. Spectatorship 2. Hogarth and the Lineage of Taste Prologue I. The Epistemology of Lines II. The Eye for Pleasure III. Dance and the Movement from Vision to Imagination IV. Eye and Mind 3. Kant and the Pleasures of Taste Prologue I. Activating Sensibility II. Determining Reflective Judgment III. Phantom Sensations and Mistaken Subjects IV. Representative Pleasures V. Opaque Pleasures Conclusion Notes Bibliography IndexReviewsHuhn'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 Author InformationTom Huhn teaches aesthetics and philosophy at the School of Visual Arts in New York. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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