After the Avant-Gardes

3.2 THECONDITION OFARTTODAY What, then, does art today look like from a Hegelian point of view? After what has been said concern ...

almost flawless with respect to craft and aesthetics. It is based on a very demanding script, it has a gifted director and excel ...

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In an age during which the prognosis for art is dire, as art seems to move from one crisis to another with such regularity that ...

“exclude aesthetics from the concept of art.” Danto’s interest is in art as philosophy, which is what we are left with after the ...

art, only that there will not be a single metanarrative for the future his- tory of art.”i9The end of art that is of interest to ...

principle” can be tweaked to apply to the arts.^11 Mill’s harm principle is one developed out of a concern for protecting the co ...

(which is the section that has become known as the Infernoand which is also the title of a chapter in Levi’s book, Survival in A ...

Works of art are important to us, because they communicate some- thing of value to us; what is communicated in a poem by Dante, ...

address[es] [itself] to the desire for ideal conceptions grander and more beautiful than life provides.”^16 Yet, in a society th ...

art takes on an especially vital role, given the numerous examples of political forces that work to transform reality, and not i ...

Let us now turn to the question of how art fulfills this humanizing function and what conditions might undermine it. The Centra ...

representations. Clearly, it would be irresponsibly optimistic to overlook the fact that works of art and the aesthetic experien ...

tory or anthropology. It is, after all, not just statues (or paintings or poems) that we have to do with, but the factors that c ...

elsewhere in life.”^28 Art that cannot offer us any aesthetic experience at all has no value of the sort Levi found in Dante’s p ...

reduction of art to something that in shunning retinal flutters really does not signify anything terribly relevant to human expe ...

may not be used to destroy freedom. Yet, clearly, people can agree to become slaves, even if they do so on pain of contradiction ...

as wide a scope possible for individuals to experiment with life projects, choose their paths to fuller development. Space for t ...

Morally offensive art, tacky or ugly art, and other breeds of bad art may have all sorts of unpleasant (or even downright painfu ...

There are abundant examples of “low-brow” art that certainly main- tains a tie to our shared humanity and augments the very mean ...