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The Life and Death of Images (Hardcover, 2nd Revised edition)
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The Life and Death of Images (Hardcover, 2nd Revised edition)
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During the 1970s and 1980s the discourse surrounding aesthetics
largely disappeared from the study of art history, theory, and
cultural studies. Claims for the aesthetic value of artworks were
thought elitist and politically regressive. The 1990s witnessed a
return to aesthetics, but one that stressed the independent claims
of beauty in reaction to its perceived suppression by ethical and
political imperatives. Beauty, however, is just one aspect of the
aesthetic. In recent years, increasing attention has been paid to
the ways in which aesthetics and ethics are intertwined. In The
Life and Death of Images some of the world's leading cultural
thinkers engage in dialogue with one another concerning this "new"
aesthetics. In provocative and accessible fashion, they demonstrate
its relevance to a range of disciplines including analytic and
continental philosophy, art history, theory and practice, cultural
history and visual culture, rhetoric and comparative literature.
While the focus is primarily on artworks, contributors also
consider other forms of imagery that raise questions about the
boundaries between art and non-art, about beauty, and about the
ethics of aesthetics.
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