After the Beautiful (Paperback)

Robert B. Pippin

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Published by The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL, 2015

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Paperback. In his Berlin lectures on fine art, Hegel argued that art involves a unique form of aesthetic intelligibilitythe expression of a distinct collective self-understanding that develops through historical time. Hegels approach to art has been influential in a number of different contexts, but in a twist of historical irony Hegel would die just before the most radical artistic revolution in history: modernism. In After the Beautiful, Robert B. Pippin, looking at modernist paintings by artists such as Edouard Manet and Paul Cezanne through Hegels lens, does what Hegel never had the chance to do.While Hegel could never engage modernist painting, he did have an understanding of modernity, and in it, arthe famously assertedwas a thing of the past, no longer an important vehicle of self-understanding and no longer an indispensable expression of human meaning. Pippin offers a sophisticated exploration of Hegels position and its implications. He also shows that had Hegel known how the social institutions of his day would ultimately fail to achieve his own version of genuine equality, a mutuality of recognition, he would have had to explore a different, new role for art in modernity. After laying this groundwork, Pippin goes on to illuminate the dimensions of Hegels aesthetic approach in the path-breaking works of Manet, the grandfather of modernism, drawing on art historians T. J. Clark and Michael Fried to do so. He concludes with a look at Cezanne, the father of modernism, this time as his works illuminate the relationship between Hegel and the philosopher who would challenge Hegels account of both modernity and artMartin Heidegger.Elegantly inter-weaving philosophy and art history, After the Beautiful is a stunning reassessment of the modernist project. It gets at the core of the significance of modernism itself and what it means in general for art to have a history. Ultimately, it is a testament, via Hegel, to the distinctive philosophical achievements of modernist art in the unsettled, tumultuous era we have inherited. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…

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Title
After the Beautiful (Paperback)
Author
Robert B. Pippin
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL
Publication year
2015
Condition
new
Binding
Paperback
Language
English
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022632558X
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9780226325583

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