A Hunger for Aesthetics: Enacting the Demands of Art

by Michael Kelly

Book Overview

For decades, aesthetics has been subjected to a variety of critiques, often concerning its treatment of beauty or the autonomy of art. Collectively, these complaints have generated an anti-aesthetic stance prevalent in the contemporary art world. Yet if we examine the motivations for these critiques, Michael Kelly argues, we find theorists and artists hungering for a new kind of aesthetics, one better calibrated to contemporary art and its moral and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231152922
• ISBN13: 9780231152921
• Release Date: May 2012
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.7" x 8.3"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher