Description
Book SynopsisGathers historians, philosophers, critics, curators, and artists to explore the divisions in teaching, practice, and theorization of art created by the choice between continuations of Modernism, with its aesthetic values, and the many kinds of postmodernism, which privilege issues outside aesthetics, including politics, gender, and identity.
Table of ContentsContents
Series Preface
Introduction, James Elkins
The Seminars
1 Introductory Seminar
2 The Anti-Aesthetic in the 1980s: Craig Owens’s “The Allegorical Impulse”
3 The Anti-Aesthetic in the 1990s: The Body
4 Theory and Criticism
5 Theoretical Positions: Critical Theory
6 Theoretical Positions: Rancière, Deleuze, Relational Aesthetics
7 Theoretical Positions: Affect Theory in Art History
8 Theoretical Positions: Affect Theory at Large
9 Things Missing from This Book
Assessments
Preface, Harper Montgomery
Grant Kester
Alexander Dumbadze
Geng Youzhuang
Cary Levine
Boris Groys
Gregory Sholette
Eva Schürmann
Maria Filomena Molder
Gary Peters
Andrew McNamara
Gordon Hughes
Toni Ross
Justin McKeown
Timotheus Vermeulen
Noah Simblist
Rebecca Zorach
Carrie Noland
Robert Storr
William Mazzarella
Luis Camnitzer
Jon Simons
Angela Dimitrikaki
Afterword, Gretchen Bakke
Notes on the Contributors
Index
