Uncontrollable Beauty: Toward a New Aesthetics (Aesthetics Today) - Hardcover

Beckley, Bill; Shapiro, David

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1880559900 ISBN 13: 9781880559901

Publisher: Allworth Press,U.S., 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

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.

Synopsis:

This volume contains essays examining the role of beauty in 20th-century art and culture, by artists, critics and literati. It aims to help redefine beauty for a new generation of artists and writers.

About this edition

• Publisher: Allworth Press,U.S.
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 1880559900
• ISBN 13: 9781880559901
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288