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Aesthetic Life - The Past and Present of Artistic Cultures (Paperback)
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Aesthetic Life - The Past and Present of Artistic Cultures (Paperback)
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Harry Redner's Aesthetic Life examines the arts - all the arts from
the earliest Paleolithic painting to the latest post-Modern music.
Its aim is to account for the nature of art in its historical
totality and to assess the role it has played in human life
throughout the ages. In seeking to review the history of art in all
civilizations and separate cultures, this work is intensely aware
of the critical state of the arts towards which this history seems
to be heading. None of the great artistic cultures has survived
intact as a living tradition. All have been more or less consigned
to museums, the mausoleums of dead art. India, China, Japan,
Byzantium, Persia, all the sources of the heritage of great art
have dwindled away. The last of these, Europe, also faltered in the
course of the twentieth century, which began with so much hope - it
seemed for a while that the Modernist upsurge of rebellious energy
was to be the first stage of a new culture. In the present anarchic
age of post-Modernism, where 'anything goes, ' it has become
apparent that Modernism was merely the last stage of European
culture. With all these great traditions gone, Aesthetic Life asks
'What is to be done about art now?'-and considers possible answers
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