Aesthetic Action

by Florian Klinger

In this new book, Florian Klinger gives readers a basic action-theoretical account of the aesthetic. While normal action fulfills a determinate concept, Klinger argues, aesthetic action performs an indeterminacy by suspending the action's conceptual resolution. Taking as examples work by Tino Sehgal, Kara Walker, Mazen Kerbaj, Marina Abramovic, Cy Twombly, and Franz Kafka, the book examines indeterminacy in such instances as a walk that is at once...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1503636976
• ISBN13: 9781503636972
• Release Date: January 2024
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 404 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 9.0" x 6.0"