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Aesthetic Subjects

By Pamela R. Matthews and David McWhirter (eds.)

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Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Year
2003
ISBN
978-0-8166-3993-9; 978-0-8166-3992-2
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
15 MB (15305924 bytes)
Pages
525\525
Time added
2019-02-23 23:37:14

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Demonstrates the remarkable resurgence of interest in the aesthetic Recent calls for a return to aesthetics occur precisely at a moment when it is increasingly evident that nothing concerning aesthetics is self-evident anymore. Determined to recover the value of aesthetic experience for artistic, cultural, and social analysis, the contributors to this volume—prominent scholars in literature, philosophy, art history, architecture, history, and anthropology—begin from a shared recognition that ideological readings of the aesthetic have provided invaluable insights, in particular, that analyses of aesthetics within historical and social contexts tell us a great deal about the experience of aesthetic encounters. From multiple and complementary perspectives, the contributors address topics as varied as Nabokov and Dickens, Caravaggio and Shelley Winters, gender and sexuality, advertising and AIDS. Taken together, their essays constitute a sustained and multifarious effort to resituate aesthetic pleasure in the mixed, impure conditions characteristic of every social practice and experience, however privileged or marginalized, and to ask what happens to the aesthetic if we consider it apart from—or at least in tension with—its historically dominant discursive formulations. As such, this volume establishes a renewed sense of aesthetic discourse and its usefulness as a tool for understanding culture. Contributors: Leo Bersani, U of California, Berkeley; Susan Bordo, U of Kentucky; Bill Brown, U of Chicago; Beatriz Colomina, Princeton U; Ulysse Dutoit, U of California, Berkeley; Lee Edelman, Tufts U; Maureen Harkin, Reed College; Howard Horwitz, U of Utah; Audrey Jaffe, U of California, Santa Cruz; Martin Jay, U of California, Berkeley; Kay Bea Jones, Ohio State U; Robert Kaufman, Stanford U; Alphonso Lingis, Pennsylvania State U; Joseph Litvak, Tufts U; Douglas Mao, Cornell U; Barbara Stafford, U of Chicago; Kathleen Stewart, U of Texas; Kathryn Bond Stockton, U of Utah; Judith Stoddart, Michigan State U; Michael Taussig, Columbia U. Contents......Page 5 Acknowledgments......Page 9 INTRODUCTION: Exile's Return? Aesthetics Now by Pamela R. Matthews and David McWhirter......Page 11 Part I: Locating Aesthetic Experience: Sites, Situations, Discourses......Page 27 1. Drifting into Dangerous Waters: The Separation of Aesthetic Experience fromthe Work of Art by Martin fay......Page 29 2. Armed Assault by Alphonso Lingis......Page 54 3. Reinventing the Wall: Looking into Zaha Hadid by Kay Bea Jones......Page 70 4. Pleasures Incarnate: Aesthetic Sentiment in the Nineteenth-Century Work of Art by Judith Stoddart......Page 96 5. Caravaggio's Secrets by Leo Bersani and Ulysse Dutoit......Page 125 Part II: Aesthetics in Social Contexts: Economies and Ethics......Page 149 6. The Moral Content of Nabokov's Lolita by Susan Bordo......Page 151 7. The Aesthetics of Jewishness: Shelley Winters by Joseph Litvak......Page 179 8. Theorizing Popular Practice in Eighteenth-Century Aesthetics: Lord Kames and Alexander Gerard by Maureen Harkin......Page 197 9. The Labor Theory of Beauty: Aesthetic Subjects, Blind Justice by Douglas Mao......Page 216 10. Sinthom-osexuality by Lee Edelman......Page 256 Part III: Aesthetic Subjects: Bodies, Minds, Identities......Page 275 11. The Combinatorial Aesthetics of Neurobiology by Barbara Maria Stafford......Page 277 12. Cloth Wounds: Queer Aesthetics of Debasement by Kathryn Bond Stockton......Page 294 13. Embodying Culture: Dorian's Wish by Audrey Jaffe......Page 321 14. Bad Taste, the Root Evil: I. A. Richards and the Postnational Subject by Howard Horwitz......Page 339 Part IV: Rethinking Aesthetics: Secrets and Magic, the Gift and the Child......Page 371 15. The Gift: Reflections on the Eames House by Beatriz Colomina......Page 373 16. What Is Construction, What's the Aesthetic, What Was Adorno Doing? by Robert Kaufman......Page 392 17. The Secret Life of Things Virginia Woolf and the Matter of Modernism by Bill Brown......Page 423 18. Arresting Images by Kathleen Stewart......Page 457 19. The Adult's Imagination of the Child's Imagination by Michael Taussig......Page 475 Contributors......Page 495 Index......Page 501

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