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Author Lijster, Thijs, 1981- author.

Title Benjamin and Adorno on art and art criticism : critique of art / Thijs Lijster.

Publication Info. Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2017].
©2017

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Description 1 online resource (367 pages) : 24 cm
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary "This book brings together two of the most important figures of twentieth-century criticism, Walter Benjamin and Theodor Adorno, to consider a topic that was central to their thinking: the place of and reason for art in society and culture. Thijs Lijster takes us through points of agreement and disagreement between the two on such key topics as the relationship between art and historical experience, between avant-garde art and mass culture, and between the intellectual and the public. He also addresses the continuing relevance of Benjamin and Adorno to ongoing debates in contemporary aesthetics, such as the end of art, the historical meaning of art, and the role of the critic."--Provided by publisher.
Contents Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Critique of Art -- 1. Autonomy and Critique -- 2. Ends of Art -- Excursus I - The (N)everending Story -- 3. Experience, History, and Art -- Excursus II - Base and Superstructure Reconsidered -- 4. The Art of Critique -- Excursus III - Where is the Critic? -- Conclusion -- Appendix - Notes on a Camp -- Bibliography -- Index
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Subject Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940.
Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940.
Adorno, Theodor W., 1903-1969.
Adorno, Theodor W., 1903-1969.
Art -- Philosophy.
Art -- Philosophy.
Aesthetics.
Aesthetics.
Critical theory.
Critical theory.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
ISBN 9789048531059 (electronic book)
9048531055 (electronic book)
9789462981409
946298140X