Beschreibung
This book presents aestheticism of the 19th century as a philosophical theory, and as the source of modernist and formalist aesthetics and art of the 20th century. It analyzes the definition of art formulated by Oscar Wilde, Walter Pater, and James Whistler, and their theory of form and content, art’s autonomy and ontology, criticism, and musicality.
Autorenportrait
Michalle Gal is a senior lecturer, the head of the Cultural Studies Program at Shenkar College, and a lecturer in the Philosophy Department at Tel Aviv University. She publishes in the fields of aesthetics and the philosophy of art, the philosophy of language, and visual culture.
Inhalt
Contents: New Notion of Painting – Artistic Freedom – Syntacticity and Musicality – Influential Detachment: Art and Life – Completeness of the Artwork: Order, Beauty, Autonomy – Criticism versus Interpretation – Conceptual Mimesis.
