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Book Why Art After The Postmodern Era Is Not Real Art

Download or read book Why Art After The Postmodern Era Is Not Real Art written by Cyrus Manasseh and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2020-06-09 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Document from the year 2019 in the subject Art - Art Theory, General, The University of Western Australia, course: Philosophy, language: English, abstract: In this philosophical lecture I discuss how and why the art of today is not a real art and how there are no standards anymore at all. I chose to give this lecture because I feel that if we understand why art today is not a real art, we will be able to change it and our conceptions for the future. This paper is an elaboration of the lecture and discusses how the heroic artists in Modernism were mistakenly taken as the examples and leaders for creating that which is seen as art in and after the post-modern era today.

Book Pictures of Nothing

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kirk Varnedoe
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2006-10-29
  • ISBN : 069112678X
  • Pages : 302 pages

Download or read book Pictures of Nothing written by Kirk Varnedoe and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2006-10-29 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He delivered the lectures, edited and reproduced here with their illustrations, to overflowing crowds at the National Gallery of Art in Washington in the spring of 2003, just months before his death. With brilliance, passion, and humor, Varnedoe addresses the skeptical attitudes and misunderstandings that we often bring to our experience of abstract art. Resisting grand generalizations, he makes a deliberate and scholarly case for abstraction--showing us that more than just pure looking is necessary to understand the self-made symbolic language of abstract art. Proceeding decade by decade, he brings alive the history and biography that inform the art while also challenging the received wisdom about distinctions between abstraction and representation, modernism and postmodernism, and minimalism and pop.

Book French Philosophy in the Twentieth Century

Download or read book French Philosophy in the Twentieth Century written by Gary Gutting and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-05-10 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A clear and comprehensive account of the history of French philosophy in the twentieth century.

Book Evolution Through Art

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  • Author : Michael Newberry
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2021-04-11
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 242 pages

Download or read book Evolution Through Art written by Michael Newberry and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-11 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the stunning birth of art in prehistoric times, to the highly nuanced developments happening now, Evolution Through Art illuminates how art is the key component in our evolution as individuals and as a species. On this aesthetic journey, you will become familiar with how visual art taps into our mental potentials, inspires new and wondrous emotions, and elevates our perceptual awareness. Along the way, you will meet artists, such as da Vinci and Van Gogh, and learn how they contributed to the technology of the human soul. You will also meet aesthetic cynics, such as Kant and Duchamp, and understand how their work negates art. Finally, you will discover incredible living artists from different corners of the world who are picking up the noble banner of art and showing us the best of humanity.

Book Art Of The Postmodern Era

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  • Author : Irving Sandler
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2018-05-30
  • ISBN : 0429981821
  • Pages : 952 pages

Download or read book Art Of The Postmodern Era written by Irving Sandler and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-30 with total page 952 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sandler discusses the major and minor artists and their works; movements, ideas, attitudes, and styles; and the social and cultural context of the period. He covers post-modernist art theory, the art market, and consumer society. American and European art and artists are included.

Book After the End of Art

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  • Author : Arthur C. Danto
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2021-06-08
  • ISBN : 0691209308
  • Pages : 350 pages

Download or read book After the End of Art written by Arthur C. Danto and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-08 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic and provocative account of how art changed irrevocably with pop art and why traditional aesthetics can’t make sense of contemporary art A classic of art criticism and philosophy, After the End of Art continues to generate heated debate for its radical and famous assertion that art ended in the 1960s. Arthur Danto, a philosopher who was also one of the leading art critics of his time, argues that traditional notions of aesthetics no longer apply to contemporary art and that we need a philosophy of art criticism that can deal with perhaps the most perplexing feature of current art: that everything is possible. An insightful and entertaining exploration of art’s most important aesthetic and philosophical issues conducted by an acute observer of contemporary art, After the End of Art argues that, with the eclipse of abstract expressionism, art deviated irrevocably from the narrative course that Vasari helped define for it in the Renaissance. Moreover, Danto makes the case for a new type of criticism that can help us understand art in a posthistorical age where, for example, an artist can produce a work in the style of Rembrandt to create a visual pun, and where traditional theories cannot explain the difference between Andy Warhol’s Brillo Box and the product found in the grocery store. After the End of Art addresses art history, pop art, “people’s art,” the future role of museums, and the critical contributions of Clement Greenberg, whose aesthetics-based criticism helped a previous generation make sense of modernism. Tracing art history from a mimetic tradition (the idea that art was a progressively more adequate representation of reality) through the modern era of manifestos (when art was defined by the artist’s philosophy), Danto shows that it wasn’t until the invention of pop art that the historical understanding of the means and ends of art was nullified. Even modernist art, which tried to break with the past by questioning the ways in which art was produced, hinged on a narrative.

Book The Cambridge Introduction to Postmodern Fiction

Download or read book The Cambridge Introduction to Postmodern Fiction written by Bran Nicol and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-10-08 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lucid exploration of the key features of postmodernism and the most important authors from Beckett to DeLillo.

Book Explaining Postmodernism

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  • Author : Stephen R. C. Hicks
  • Publisher : Scholargy Publishing, Inc.
  • Release : 2004
  • ISBN : 9781592476428
  • Pages : 250 pages

Download or read book Explaining Postmodernism written by Stephen R. C. Hicks and published by Scholargy Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2004 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Heidegger  Art  and Postmodernity

Download or read book Heidegger Art and Postmodernity written by Iain D. Thomson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-04-29 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heidegger, Art, and Postmodernity offers a radical new interpretation of Heidegger's later philosophy, developing his argument that art can help lead humanity beyond the nihilistic ontotheology of the modern age. Providing pathbreaking readings of Heidegger's 'The Origin of the Work of Art' and his notoriously difficult Contributions to Philosophy (From Enowning), this book explains precisely what postmodernity meant for Heidegger, the greatest philosophical critic of modernity, and what it could still mean for us today. Exploring these issues, Iain D. Thomson examines several postmodern works of art, including music, literature, painting and even comic books, from a post-Heideggerian perspective. Clearly written and accessible, this book will help readers gain a deeper understanding of Heidegger and his relation to postmodern theory, popular culture and art.

Book Postmodernism  or  The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism

Download or read book Postmodernism or The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism written by Fredric Jameson and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1992-01-06 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in paperback, Fredric Jameson’s most wide-ranging work seeks to crystalize a definition of ”postmodernism”. Jameson’s inquiry looks at the postmodern across a wide landscape, from “high” art to “low” from market ideology to architecture, from painting to “punk” film, from video art to literature.

Book Art in the Postmodern Era

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  • Author : Grzegorz Dziamski
  • Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
  • Release : 2013
  • ISBN : 3643903723
  • Pages : 135 pages

Download or read book Art in the Postmodern Era written by Grzegorz Dziamski and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2013 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Art in the Postmodern Era examines how artists and intellectuals from Central and Eastern Europe got involved in debating postmodernism and how this postmodern in turn impacted the way of thinking about art in Central Europe. The book starts with a brief survey of 20th-century art and then focuses on the neo-avant-garde and the birth of postmodern art, with its democratization and subsequent shift towards a post-artistic epoch when anything can become art. The book also raises an important issue concerning art in the time of globalization. (Series: Development in Humanities - Vol. 3)

Book Advice to Young Artists in a Postmodern Era

Download or read book Advice to Young Artists in a Postmodern Era written by William V. Dunning and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dunning draws on art, art criticism, his own insight, and various studies of those characteristics that lead to success in art by providing the student with useful information on pursuing art and art as a career. From exploring the development of self-discipline, examining the learning process, and suggesting courses to take in school to setting up a studio and networking in the art world, he recommends a general strategy that he has seen work well for many young artists. Although aimed primarily toward artists, and often drawing upon a comparison to scientists, this book is designed to explain how to achieve excellence in almost any field to which the reader applies effort, whether art, music, science, or business.

Book Saving Leonardo

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  • Author : Nancy Pearcey
  • Publisher : B&H Publishing Group
  • Release : 2010-09-01
  • ISBN : 1433672863
  • Pages : 4 pages

Download or read book Saving Leonardo written by Nancy Pearcey and published by B&H Publishing Group. This book was released on 2010-09-01 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is secularism a positive force in the modern world? Or does it lead to fragmentation and disintegration? In Saving Leonardo, best-selling award-winning author Nancy Pearcey (Total Truth, coauthor How Now Shall We Live?) makes a compelling case that secularism is destructive and dehumanizing. Pearcey depicts the revolutionary thinkers and artists, the ideas and events, leading step by step to the unleashing of secular worldviews that undermine human dignity and liberty. She crafts a fresh approach that exposes the real-world impact of ideas in philosophy, science, art, literature, and film--voices that surround us in the classroom, in the movie theater, and in our living rooms. A former agnostic, Pearcey offers a persuasive case for historic Christianity as a holistic and humane alternative. She equips readers to counter the life-denying worldviews that are radically restructuring society and pervading our daily lives. Whether you are a devoted Christian, determined secularist, or don't know quite where you stand, reading Saving Leonardo will unsettle established views and topple ideological idols. Includes more than 100 art reproductions and illustrations that bring the book's themes to life. Praise for Saving Leonardo: "A feast for the mind and for the eye. Nancy Pearcey not only is a trustworthy guide for a nuanced discussion on the relationship between culture and the gospel, but she is a gifted teacher as well . . . Saving Leonardo is a rare, precious gift to the churches and universities alike." Makoto Fujimura, artist and author of Refractions: A Journey of Faith, Art, and Culture "Nancy Pearcey has done it again and better than ever. She has taken the complex sophistication of the best cultural analysis and laid it out for any person to grasp, enjoy and use to live out their daily lives honoring Christ. An astounding accomplishment!" James W. Sire, author of The Universe Next Door "G. K. Chesterton said 'the danger when Men stop believing in God is not that they'll believe in nothing; but that they will believe in anything.' Nancy Pearcey understands where believing in anything leads and in this book she reveals where a secular philosophy is taking us. A balanced, fair, and impacting work!" Cal Thomas, syndicated and USA Today columnist "Nancy Pearcey helps a new generation of evangelicals to understand the worldview challenges we now face and to develop an intelligent and articulate Christian understanding . . . Saving Leonardo should be put in the hands of all those who should always be ready to give an answer--and that means all of us." R. Albert Mohler, Jr., president, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary "Nancy Pearcey is an intellectual prophet in our day and one of Evangelicalism's foremost cultural observers. Saving Leonardo is a tour de force. In it, Pearcey provides a penetrating analysis of the nature of contemporary secularism, a helpful exposition of how we got to the present situation, and a well-crafted strategy for changing the situation. This is her best effort yet . . . a must read." J. P. Moreland, distinguished professor of Philosophy, Biola University and author of The God Question "Nancy Pearcey is unsurpassed in the current generation of Christian thinkers . . . The magic continues with this book. Pearcey's virtues as a writer and thinker are once again fully evident in the range of material that she has mastered, the encyclopedic collection of data that she presents, and the analytic rigor with which she separates truth from error in worldviews. She is a prophetic voice for contemporary Christians." Leland Ryken, Clyde S. Kilby professor of English, Wheaton College "Brilliant . . . The book brings complex, abstract ideas down-to-earth -- or rather, down-to-life. . . . Saving Leonardo bridges the gaps between the arts and the sciences, the theoretical and the practical. The book not only argues for the unity of Christian truth but exemplifies that unity and shows it in action." Gene Edward Veith, provost, Patrick Henry College

Book Advice to Young Artists in a Postmodern Era

Download or read book Advice to Young Artists in a Postmodern Era written by William V. Dunning and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2000-02-01 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is art a matter of inspiration or of learning? Advice to Young Artists in a Postmodern Era, offers practical advice to the young artist about making the successful Dunning writes that in his years of teaching, he has heard students ask why no classes are ever offered to teach them what ingredients are helpful to the success of an artist: how to approach and deal with galleries and dealers; what to do about setting up their own studio and how to light it; and even how they should support themselves while they are attempting to do all this. Drawing on thirty-five years of experience as an artist and an art teacher, and those of several successful colleagues, the author follows the model of Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet and Hiram William's Notes for a Young Painter to compose this practical guide book. Advice to Young Artists is the only book of its kind geared to aspiring artists.

Book Metamodernism

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  • Author : Robin Van den Akker
  • Publisher : Radical Cultural Studies
  • Release : 2017
  • ISBN : 9781783489602
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Metamodernism written by Robin Van den Akker and published by Radical Cultural Studies. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brings together many of the most influential voices in the scholarly and critical debate about post-postmodernism and twenty-first century aesthetics, arts and culture.

Book Art After Modernism

    Book Details:
  • Author : Brian Wallis
  • Publisher : New York : New Museum of Contemporary Art ; Boston : D.R. Godine
  • Release : 1984
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 484 pages

Download or read book Art After Modernism written by Brian Wallis and published by New York : New Museum of Contemporary Art ; Boston : D.R. Godine. This book was released on 1984 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The waning of the century-old modernist movement in the arts has called forth an astonishing array of artistic and critical responses. The twenty-five essays in Art After Modernism provide a comprehensive survey of the most provocative directions taken by recent art and criticism, exploring such topics as the decline of the ideology of modernism in the arts and the emergence of a wide range of postmodern practices; recent directions in painting, film, video, and imagery; and the dynamics of the social network in which art is produced and disseminated. This major collection is an indispensable guide to the ideas and issues animating this decade's art--the far-reaching cultural reorientation known as postmodernism"--Back cover

Book Why Art Cannot Be Taught

    Book Details:
  • Author : James Elkins
  • Publisher : University of Illinois Press
  • Release : 2001-05-17
  • ISBN : 9780252069505
  • Pages : 228 pages

Download or read book Why Art Cannot Be Taught written by James Elkins and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2001-05-17 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He also addresses the phenomenon of art critiques as a microcosm for teaching art as a whole and dissects real-life critiques, highlighting presuppositions and dynamics that make them confusing and suggesting ways to make them more helpful. Elkins's no-nonsense approach clears away the assumptions about art instruction that are not borne out by classroom practice. For example, he notes that despite much talk about instilling visual acuity and teaching technique, in practice neither teachers nor students behave as if those were their principal goals. He addresses the absurdity of pretending that sexual issues are absent from life-drawing classes and questions the practice of holding up great masters and masterpieces as models for students capable of producing only mediocre art. He also discusses types of art--including art that takes time to complete and art that isn't serious--that cannot be learned in studio art classes.