Uncontrollable Beauty: Toward a New Aesthetics

Beckley, Bill, Shapiro, David

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.

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A stimulating collection of critical essays that boldly interrogates the resurgence of beauty within late-twentieth-century visual art.

EAN

9781581151961

Publisher

Allworth Press,U.S.

Published

18 October 2001

Pages

448

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