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The Aesthetics of Uncertainty (Paperback)
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The Aesthetics of Uncertainty (Paperback)
Series: Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts
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Feminism, poststructuralism, postcolonialism, and Marxism, among
other critical approaches, have undermined traditional notions of
aesthetics in recent decades. But questions of aesthetic judgment
and pleasure persist, and many critics now seek a "return to
aesthetics" or a "return to beauty." Janet Wolff advances a
"postcritical" aesthetics grounded in shared values that are
negotiated in the context of community. She relates this approach
to contemporary debates about a committed politics similarly
founded on the abandonment of certainty. Neither universalist nor
relativist, the "aesthetics of uncertainty" provides a discourse on
beauty that contemporary critics can engage with and offers a basis
for judgment that is committed to assigning value to works of art.
Wolff explores her position through a range of topics: the question
of beauty in relation to feminist critique; the problematic status
of twentieth-century English art, visual representations of the
Holocaust, Jewish identity as portrayed by the artist R. B. Kitaj,
refugee artists and modernism in 1940s Britain, and the nature and
appeal of imagistic thinking in sociology. She addresses the desire
for certainty and the timeliness of doubt and concludes with a
meditation on the intersection of aesthetics and ethics, arguing
that ethical issues are very much implicated in aesthetic
discourse.
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