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Against Aesthetic Exceptionalism

By Arne De Boever

Book information

Publisher
U of Minnesota Press
Year
2019
ISBN
1452962200, 9781452962207
Google Books ID
44SkDwAAQBAJ
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3180430 bytes)
Pages
130\131
Time added
2020-12-23 11:42:04

Description

Reconsiders exceptionalism between aesthetics and politics Here, Arne De Boever proposes the notion of aesthetic exceptionalism to describe the widespread belief that art and artists are exceptional. Against Aesthetic Exceptionalism challenges that belief by focusing on the sovereign artist as genius, as well as the original artwork as the foundation of the art market. Engaging with sculpture, conceptual artwork, and painting by emerging and established artists, De Boever proposes a worldly, democratic notion of unexceptional art as an antidote to the problems of aesthetic exceptionalism. Forerunners: Ideas First Short books of thought-in-process scholarship, where intense analysis, questioning, and speculation take the lead

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