After the Avant-Gardes

Contents

Introduction vii

I The Future of Art 1

1. The Importance of Being Odd: Nerdrum’s Challenge to
   Modernism
   PAULA. CANTOR 3


2. Mimesis versus the Avant-Garde: Art and Cognition
   MICHELLEMARDERKAMHI 37


3. A Prophecy Come True? Danto and Hegel on the
   End of Art
   HENNINGTEGTMEYER 51


4. The Humanizing Function of Art: Thoughts on an
   Aesthetic Harm Principle
   ELIZABETHMILLÁN 75

II Progress and Permanence 95

5. What Shall We Do After Wagner? Karl Popper on
   Progressivism in Music
   JONATHANLECOCQ 97


6. Does the New Classicism Need Evolutionary Theory?
   RAYSCOTTPERCIVAL 109

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