Aestheticism : deep formalism and the emergence of modernist aesthetics
Aestheticism (Literature) Art for art's sake (Movement) Art, Modern -- 20th century Modernism (Art) PHILOSOPHY / Essays PHILOSOPHY / Reference
Peter Lang AG
2015
EISBN 9783035107876
Cover; Acknowledements 7; Table of Contents; Opening: Deep Form 11; Aestheticism and Formalism 13; 1. A New Notion of Painting 17; 1.1 The Introduction of Abstract Painting: Opaque Symbol 19; 1.2 The Separation between the Arts, and the Merger between Content and Form 22; 1.3 Four Means of Artistic Anti-Realism 27; 1.4 The Dissolution of the Subject Matter 35; 2. Artistic Freedom 47; 2.1 Two Concepts of Mimesis: Visual and Conceptual 47; 2.2 Two Models of Artistic Freedom: Introversive and Expansionist 49; 2.3 Internal Necessity 50; 2.4 Immunity to Recruitment 54; 2.5 Realistic Effect 57
2.6 The Detachment of Art from Life 613. Syntacticity and Musicality 67; 3.1 Aesthetic Attitude 70; 3.2 Two Concepts of Mimesis Again: Visual vs. Descriptive 73; 3.3 Suppression of the Subject Matter, and the Physiognomy of Word 80; 3.4 Oscar Wilde's Example 84; 4. Influential Detachment: Art and Life 89; 4.1 What Gives Form its Depth 90; 4.2 Artwork and Human Spirit 94; 4.3 Rebellion against Authority 98; 5. Completeness of the Artwork: Order, Beauty, Autonomy 103; 5.1 Order, Autonomy, and Beauty: A Combination in Two Steps 105; 5.2 Are Whistler's Nocturnes Complete? 110
6. Criticism versus Interpretation 1196.1 Silencing the Critics 121; 6.2 Criticism as Art: Form Born from Form 127; 7. Conceptual Mimesis 131; 7.1 The Internal/External Inversion 131; Closing: The Demise of Deep Form? 145; Bibliography 155; List of figures 159; Index 161
This book offers, for the first time in aesthetics, a comprehensive account of aestheticism of the 19th century as a philosophical theory of its own right. Taking philosophical and art-historical viewpoints, this cross-disciplinary book presents aestheticism as the foundational movement of modernist aesthetics of the 20th century. Emerging in the writings of the foremost aestheticists - Oscar Wilde, Walter Pater, James Whistler, and their formalist successors such as Clive Bell, Roger Fry, and Clement Greenberg - aestheticism offers a uniquely synthetic definition of art. It captures the artwo.
2.6 The Detachment of Art from Life 613. Syntacticity and Musicality 67; 3.1 Aesthetic Attitude 70; 3.2 Two Concepts of Mimesis Again: Visual vs. Descriptive 73; 3.3 Suppression of the Subject Matter, and the Physiognomy of Word 80; 3.4 Oscar Wilde's Example 84; 4. Influential Detachment: Art and Life 89; 4.1 What Gives Form its Depth 90; 4.2 Artwork and Human Spirit 94; 4.3 Rebellion against Authority 98; 5. Completeness of the Artwork: Order, Beauty, Autonomy 103; 5.1 Order, Autonomy, and Beauty: A Combination in Two Steps 105; 5.2 Are Whistler's Nocturnes Complete? 110
6. Criticism versus Interpretation 1196.1 Silencing the Critics 121; 6.2 Criticism as Art: Form Born from Form 127; 7. Conceptual Mimesis 131; 7.1 The Internal/External Inversion 131; Closing: The Demise of Deep Form? 145; Bibliography 155; List of figures 159; Index 161
This book offers, for the first time in aesthetics, a comprehensive account of aestheticism of the 19th century as a philosophical theory of its own right. Taking philosophical and art-historical viewpoints, this cross-disciplinary book presents aestheticism as the foundational movement of modernist aesthetics of the 20th century. Emerging in the writings of the foremost aestheticists - Oscar Wilde, Walter Pater, James Whistler, and their formalist successors such as Clive Bell, Roger Fry, and Clement Greenberg - aestheticism offers a uniquely synthetic definition of art. It captures the artwo.
