After the Beautiful: Hegel and the Philosophy of Pictorial Modernism

by Robert B. Pippin

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022632558X
• ISBN13: 9780226325583
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 8.9"