Jacques RanciÃ¨re,Zakir Paul
Aisthesis, is Jacques Ranciere's long-awaited, definitive statement on aesthetics, art and modernity. The book comprises a string of dramatic and evocative locales, each embodying specific artistic tendencies and together spanning the modern era--from Dresden in 1764 to New York in 1941. Along the way, we view the Belvedere Torso with Winckelmann, accompany Hegel to the museum and Mallarme to the Folies-Bergere, attend a lecture by Emerson, and visit exhibitions in Paris and New York, factories in Berlin, and film sets in Moscow and Hollywood. Ranciere uses these sites and events--some famous, others forgotten--to ask what becomes art and what comes of it. He shows how a regime of artistic perception and interpretation was constituted and transformed by erasing the distinctions between the different arts along with the borders separating them from ordinary experience.,This incisive study provides a history of artistic modernity far removed from conventional understandings of modernism.
Philosophy,Art,Philosophy,Theory,Nonfiction,Cultural,France,Culture,Film,History
Aisthesis: Scenes from the Aesthetic Regime of Art