Uncontrollable Beauty: Toward a New Aesthetics (Aesthetics today) - Softcover

Shapiro, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1581151969 ISBN 13: 9781581151961

Publisher: Allworth Press, 1998

Synopsis

In this acclaimed art anthology, a prestigious group of artists, critics, and literati offer their incisive reflections on the questions of beauty, past, present, and future, and how it has become a domain of multiple perspectives.

Here is Meyer Schapiro’s skeptical argument on perfection . . . contributions from artists as profound as Louise Bourgeois and Agnes Martin . . . and reflections of critics, curators, and philosophers on the problems of beauty and relativism. Readers will find fascinating insights from such art theorists and critics as Dave Hickey, Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe, Donald Kuspit, Carter Ratcliff, and dozens more.

About this title

Synopsis:

An art anthology about beauty. In this collection of essays, a group of artists, critics and literati offer their reflections on the question of beauty - past, present and future. The range of these works encompasses Meyer Schapiro's sceptical argument on perfection, contributions from artists as profound as Louise Bourgeois and Agnes Martin, and reflections of critics, curators and philosophers on the problems of beauty and relativism. The volume also contains the insights of some of today's innovative art theorists, such as Dave Hickey, Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe, Peter Schjeldahl and Julia Kristeva, as well as the writings of critics such as Arthur Danto, Donald Kuspit and Carter Ratcliff. These writers and thinkers underline how the sense of beauty today is an inescapable domain of multiple perspectives.

About the Author:

Bill Beckley is an artist who has exhibited widely in America and Europe since l970. His works are in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, The Whitney Museum, and the Guggenheim in New York; The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston; and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. He teaches semiotics and film at the School of Visual Arts in New York, and is the editor for the "Aesthetics Today" series from Allworth Press, which includes "Beauty and the Contemporary Sublime" by Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe, "Redeeming Art and The Dialectic of Decadence" by Donald Kuspit, "Sculpture in the Age of Doubt" by Thomas McEvilley, and "Out of the Box: The Reinvention of Art, 1965-1975" by Carter Ratcliff.

About this edition

• Publisher: Allworth Press
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 1581151969
• ISBN 13: 9781581151961
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 448
• Editor: Beckley Bill