After the Avant-Gardes

Index

233

abstract art, 43–44, 165
as decorative, 189–190
as middle class,190
as self-indulgent, 189–190
abstract expressionism, 44, 165, 171,
189–190
middle-class competition in, 190
academic art, as neglected, 171
Adams, Laurie Schneider, 181–82
A History of Western Art, 181–82,
225n50
Adorno, Theodor, 76–77, 79
on the end of art, 76, 210n8,
210n13
on modern music, 106
aesthetic experience, 85–86
aesthetics
cognitive studies of, 119, 201n7
cognitive turn in, 46
and evolution, 112
standards in, and sexual differences,
125
aesthetik, 39–40, 201n7
American Arts Quarterly, 129, 137
“American Masterpieces: Three
Centuries of Artistic Genius” (NEA
program), 180
American Society for Aesthetics (ASA),
169
anatomical abstraction, 188–89
Andre, Carl, 42
Ann Long Fine Art gallery, 200n1
anti-art, 45, 204n16, 219n19
Aquinas, Thomas, 137
Aristos Awards, 222n33

Aristotle, 46, 55, 143, 154, 156, 202n11

Poetics, 41

Arnolfini, Giovanni, 46, 204n18

art. See alsoabstract art; avant-garde art;

modern art; postmodern art

and aesthetic experience, 90–93

anti-essentialist view of, 56

for art’s sake, 209n50

avant-garde versus traditional, 37

Chinese traditional views of, 203n11

and Christian theology, 66

and cognition, 38–42, 200n3

conceptual, 42, 132, 192

condition of today, 72–73

crisis of, 51, 75, 81, 90

definition of, 42, 84, 169, 170–71,

176, 187, 219n15[a], 219n15[b]

and elitism, 124

evolutionary psychology of, 113–15

and evolutionary theory, 124–25,

150–51

expression theory of, 54–55

form and meaning in, 122–23

and freedom, 89–90

gatekeepers of, 37

harm principle for, 78

harms to, 90, 92

as historical, 52

and human condition, 70–71, 73

humanizing function of, 75–83, 86,

90–93

and human needs, 75

and identity, 82

ideology-genetic conflict in, 123

institutional definition of, 42