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1 online resource (176 pages). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Value inquiry book series,
0929-8436 ;
vol. 264. Central European Value Studies, CEVS
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Value inquiry book series ; vol. 264.
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| Contents |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; PREFACE; ONE Santayana and the Avant-garde: Visual Arts in the Context of Democracy, Norms, Liberty, and Social Progress; 1. Santayana and the Avant-garde; 2. Democratic, Although Not Liberal, Character of Modern Artistic Institutions and the Avant-garde ""Soviets""; 3. Vital Liberty and the ""Penitent"" Arts; 4. Completion and Perfection vs. Deformation and Fragmentation (in Analytic Cubism); 5. Critique of Primitivism and Caricature (in Cubism and Expressionism). |
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6. Criticism of Using Color as a Main Medium of Artistic Expression (Fauvism)7. Classic Harmony vs. Abstractionist Harmony; 8. Imagination and Naturalism vs. Dreaming and Fiction (Surrealism); 9. Penetrating the World Rather Than Experiencing it: Problems with Expression (Expressionism); 10. Santayana as a ""Self-indulgent Impressionist""; 11. From the Standpoint of a Theory of Work of Art; 12. From the Standpoint of the Language of aWork of Art; 13. Conclusion: Politicization of the ""Foreground"" and the Idea of Social Progress. |
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TWO Style as the Tool of Tyranny in Gombrowicz: An Avant-gardist as a Forerunner of Postmodernism1. ""I practice a private literature"": Mixing up Theory (Objectivity) with Practice (Subjectivity); 2. The Avant-gardists Mixing up Reality with Unreality; 3. Reality and Unreality: Existentialism, Post-structuralism, and Postmodernism in Gombrowicz; 4. Disintegration, Deformation, and Decay as Somatic Symptoms of the Individual''s Suffering from Unreality; 5. Pathology of Inter-human Bonds: Dialogue as a Duel, Conversation as a Confrontation. |
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6. Seduction as Abuse: Erotic Intrigue as an Execution of Power7. Virginity as Unawareness of the Relations of Power (""Virginity""); 8. Re-construction and the Re-combination of the World of Objects and Figures in Gombrowicz: BetweenDadaism and Postmodernism; 9. Auto-therapy or Becoming More Real by Means of Literary and Philosophical Creation; 10. The Political Formlessness and Impotence of the Poles. The Need of Communal Therapy; 11. Concluding Remarks: In What Way Did Gombrowicz forerun a Postmodern Approach? |
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THREE Facial Images as a Way for the Articulation of Values in the Avant-garde''s Aesthetics of Deformation. Another Prelude to Postmodernism1. From Form to Formlessness; 2. What is Aesthetics of Deformation?; 3. Deformation of Facial Images as a Search for New Values (Munch); 4. Deformation of Facial Images as an Attempt at Re-formulation of the World of Values (Cubism); 5. Deformation of Facial Images as an Attempt to Undermine the Established Values (Duchamp); 6. Deformation of Facial Images as a Search for Freedom (Witkacy). |
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7. Deformation of Facial Images as Social Degradation (Gombrowicz). |
| Summary |
The book presents five philosophical and axiological studies devoted to the relationship between aesthetics and politics. It shows this relationship throughout the works of some avant-gardists, pragmatists, and postmodernists. It is also a voice in the discussion about the meaning of the fine arts and aesthetics in the context of the political aims and norms. This voice claims that the political dimension of art and aesthetics should be studied much more seriously than it has been till today, and needs more courageous re-interpretations and re-readings. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Aesthetics.
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Aesthetics. |
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Skowronski, Krzysztof Piotr. Beyond Aesthetics and Politics : Philosophical and Axiological Studies on the Avant-Garde, Pragmatism, and Postmodernism. Amsterdam : Editions Rodopi, ©2013 9789042036857 |
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9789401209441 (electronic book) |
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9401209448 (electronic book) |
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1322066043 (e-book) |
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9781322066042 (e-book) |
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