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Reconsiders exceptionalism between aesthetics and politics

Here, Arne De Boever proposes the notion of aesthetic exceptionalism to describe the widespread belief that art and artists are exceptional. Against Aesthetic Exceptionalism challenges that belief by focusing on the sovereign artist as genius, as well as the original artwork as the foundation of the art market. Engaging with sculpture, conceptual artwork, and painting by emerging and established artists, De Boever proposes a worldly, democratic notion of unexceptional art as an antidote to the problems of aesthetic exceptionalism.

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Against Aesthetic Exceptionalism

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      Publisher University of Minnesota Press
      Published 11 June 2019
      ISBN-13 9781517908348
      978-1517908348
      ISBN-10 1517908345
      Also in:
      Art: financial aspects The arts: general topics Philosophy: aesthetics

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Reconsiders exceptionalism between aesthetics and politics

      Here, Arne De Boever proposes the notion of aesthetic exceptionalism to describe the widespread belief that art and artists are exceptional. Against Aesthetic Exceptionalism challenges that belief by focusing on the sovereign artist as genius, as well as the original artwork as the foundation of the art market. Engaging with sculpture, conceptual artwork, and painting by emerging and established artists, De Boever proposes a worldly, democratic notion of unexceptional art as an antidote to the problems of aesthetic exceptionalism.

      Forerunners: Ideas First
      Short books of thought-in-process scholarship, where intense analysis, questioning, and speculation take the lead



      Trade Review

      "De Boever’s work offers an ongoing intellectual and critical project."—Collateral

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