234 Index
intelligibility of, 72
“lawless order” of, 83
and life blurring, 45
low brow, 90–91
and mimesis, 40–41, 44, 46–49,
53–55
minimalism, 42
and modular standards, 117–19, 122
and progress, 52–53, 81
public, 168, 218n11[a], 218n11[b]
and religion, 208n46
self-referential, 69–70
specificity in, 189
value of, 81–83
Yoruba traditional views of, 204n16
art criticism, 175–77
future of, 178
Art Education (journal), 183
art education journals, postmodern
biases in, 182–84
artcyclopedia poll, 8
art funding, 14
art history textbooks, avant-garde bias
of, 181–82
“artistic delinquency,” 92
Art News(magazine), 129
“Art Recentered: A Manifesto,” 137–140
art-related instruction in schools, 181
Art Renewal website, 136
ArtTalk(textbook), 181
Art: 21(TV show), 168
artworld, 166, 169, 170
Art Since 1900
ethical violations in, 221n25[b]
Association for Art History (AAH),
172–73, 220n23, 220n24
Association of Literary Scholars, Critics,
and Writers (ALSCW), formerly
Association of Literary Scholars
and Critics (ALSC), 172, 220n22
Astaire, Fred, 90, 93
Auschwitz, 77, 78, 93
Austen, Jane, 161
autostereograms, 215n16
avant-garde
definition of, 166, 217n7[a]
essence of, 168
monopoly of, 173, 175narcissism in, 193
traditional, 130
avant-garde art
and ‘beauty,’ 129–130
and classical art, contrast between,
120, 122
diminishing returns of, 163
exhaustion of, 110
history of, 43–44
and modern condition, 73
monopoly of, 165–170
and native aesthetics, 110
nihilism in, 111
novelty and artist-focus in, 187–88
non-artistic forces in, 111
as not art, 165
pervasiveness of, 168
self-criticism in, 111
versus traditional, 37
avant-garde texts, noise and distortion
in, 160–61
avant-gardism, and historicism, 105–06Baader, Andreas, 22, 32
Baader-Meinhof Gang, 22
Bach, J.S., 99, 101, 104, 121
St. Matthew Passion, 64
Bacon, Francis, 10
Baron-Cohen, S., 214n6
Barthes, Roland, 134, 160
Barzun, Jacques, 216n3, 225n52,
227–28n62
Batt, Mike
“One Minute of Silence,” 121
Battin, Margaret P., 219n16
Baudelaire, Charles, 135
Baumgarten, Alexander, 39, 41–42, 46,
203n13
Aesthetica, 201n7
Reflections on Poetry, 40, 42, 201n7
beauty, return to, 137
“beauty,” as stolen label, 129–131
Beethoven, Ludwig van, 101, 114
beaux arts, 41
behaviorism, 38, 115
Beiderman, Irving, 119
Bell, Clive, 118, 122