Art in progress: a philosophical response to the end of the avant-garde

Maarten Doorman905356585X, 9789053565858, 9780585495378

Книга Art in Progress Art in Progress Книги Искусство. Живопись Автор: Maarten Doorman Год издания: 2003 Формат: pdf Издат.:Amsterdam University Press Страниц: 178 Размер: 1,3 Mb ISBN: 905356585X Язык: Английский0 (голосов: 0) Оценка:In this challenging essay, Maarten Doorman argues that in art, belief in progress is still relevant, if not essential. The radical freedoms of postmodernism, he claims, have had a crippling effect on art, leaving it in danger of becoming meaningless. Art can only acquire meaning through context; the concept of progress, then, is ideal as the primary criterion for establishing that context. The history of art, in fact, can be seen as a process of constant accumulation, works of art commenting on one another and enriching one another’s meanings. It is these complex interrelationships and the progress they create in both art and its observers that Doorman, in a display of great philosophical erudition, defends.

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Table of contents :
Contents……Page 6
Foreword……Page 8
The second Labor of Hercules……Page 10
After history……Page 12
Whence, how, whither?……Page 14
The Great Exhibition……Page 16
The meaning of the history of ideas……Page 19
Koselleck: the history of ideas of progress……Page 22
Ideas of progress and related categories of change……Page 27
2 From the Ancients and the Moderns: A Door to the Future……Page 30
The Querelle between the Ancients and the Moderns……Page 31
A new look at an old question……Page 35
Perfection and perfectibility……Page 40
3 From Romanticism to the Avant-Garde……Page 46
The nineteenth century: Comte and Spencer……Page 48
Nineteenth-century cultural science: from cave paintings to Rembrandt……Page 52
Modernism and the avant-garde……Page 55
‘The little Modernsky’……Page 62
The present as the past of the future……Page 64
The structure of artistic revolutions……Page 66
The progress argument……Page 71
The periodizing museum……Page 76
Progress as aporia……Page 78
Abstraction and the beauty of a grain silo……Page 82
The new style and the spirit of the time……Page 89
Innovation in architecture……Page 92
Innovation in painting……Page 95
Consistent development……Page 104
The artistic revolution of De Stijl……Page 107
De Stijl and posterity……Page 111
The cakewalk in the present……Page 116
The avant-garde as apotheosis: the end of art……Page 117
Forward again: the end of Arthur Danto……Page 123
Farewell to progress?……Page 127
Ever richer……Page 132
Art as cognition……Page 136
Progress as regulative principle……Page 144
Notes……Page 148
Bibliography……Page 166
Index of Names……Page 178