After the Avant-Gardes

happening in Iron Law). Nietzsche’s Genealogy of Moralsis in effect a rewriting of Hegel’s Phenomenology. He adopts Hegel’s inte ...

make people see that everything we now look upon as qualities are neg- atives of the true qualities.”^58 Quoting Nerdrum, Petter ...

its demands. Then there is a kind of feeling of freedom. Happiness is escaping, being set free.”^61 VIII Where does the strange ...

Rather than accepting progressivist philosophies of history, like Hegel’s or Marx’s, Nerdrum was deeply influenced by Oswald Spe ...

technique and shows that the abstract character of modern art reflects its more basic attempt to establish its autonomy, to free ...

[A]rtists... have been pushing the boundaries of any... definition [of ‘art’], challenging our preconceptions, and leaving most ...

The question of just how works of art are experienced is, of course, at the heart of research on art and cognition. How are work ...

I. Questioning Basic Premises The intense interest shown in the topic of art and cognition clearly implies that the relationship ...

exclusively concerned. In fact, the work in which he first used the term aesthetikwas his Reflections on Poetry. That treatise a ...

makes clear, however, a work of art does not merely copynature, for it instantiates ideas more fully than any single example cou ...

In considering the status of forms of expression unknown to the eigh- teenth century, one might readily concede that nondocument ...

percepts.” Only in that form, she argued, can such ideas be grasped with the full emotional immediacy of sensory experience. Wri ...

tied to the perception of particulars, and to a cognitive grasp of their rel- evance to one’s life—not to abstractions. That is ...

intelligibility of visual art depends. But it was an imagery largely devoid of values, either personal or social, and quite deli ...

III. Artistic Mimesis and Cognition The “cognitive turn in aesthetics” of recent decades is often attributed to the publication ...

the sacramental character of the image as bearing witness to the Catholic union of husband and wife.^18 The emotional power of t ...

an exact duplicate of an event or phenomenon, and imitation also seeks to copy an original (albeit less literally so than mimicr ...

explain the emotional immediacy of the mimetic arts. Mimesis is not in itself the end, or goal, of art, but it is the powerful m ...

purported artists were going was no longer art, he replied that Duchamp had settled that question for all time, by establishing ...

In a well known paper,^1 Arthur Danto claims that Hegel’s prediction concerning the end of art in modern times has finally come ...