In his Berlin lectures on fine art, Hegel argued that art involves
a unique form of aesthetic intelligibility-the expression of a
distinct collective self-understanding that develops through
historical time. Hegel's approach to art has been influential in a
number of different contexts, but in a twist of historical irony
Hegel would die just before the most radical artistic revolution in
history: modernism. In After the Beautiful, Robert B. Pippin,
looking at modernist paintings by artists such as Edouard Manet and
Paul Cezanne through Hegel's lens, does what Hegel never had the
chance to do. While Hegel could never engage modernist painting, he
did have an understanding of modernity, and in it, art-he famously
asserted-was "a thing of the past," no longer an important vehicle
of self-understanding and no longer an indispensable expression of
human meaning. Pippin offers a sophisticated exploration of Hegel's
position and its implications. He also shows that had Hegel known
how the social institutions of his day would ultimately fail to
achieve his own version of genuine equality, a mutuality of
recognition, he would have had to explore a different, new role for
art in modernity. After laying this groundwork, Pippin goes on to
illuminate the dimensions of Hegel's aesthetic approach in the
path-breaking works of Manet, the "grandfather of modernism,"
drawing on art historians T. J. Clark and Michael Fried to do so.
He concludes with a look at Cezanne, the "father of modernism,"
this time as his works illuminate the relationship between Hegel
and the philosopher who would challenge Hegel's account of both
modernity and art-Martin Heidegger. Elegantly inter-weaving
philosophy and art history, After the Beautiful is a stunning
reassessment of the modernist project. It gets at the core of the
significance of modernism itself and what it means in general for
art to have a history. Ultimately, it is a testament, via Hegel, to
the distinctive philosophical achievements of modernist art in the
unsettled, tumultuous era we have inherited.
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