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Aesthetic Autonomy: Problems and Perspectives

Aesthetic Autonomy: Problems and Perspectives

Van Heusden, B.
Korthals Altes, L.

Hardcover

Series: Groningen Studies in Cultural Change, Book 15

Art HistoryLiterary CriticismGeneral European History

ISBN10: 904291579X
ISBN13: 9789042915794
Publisher: Peeters
Published: Dec 31 2004
Pages: 144
Weight: 0.98
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.56 Depth: 9.86
Language: English
This volume contains a selection of essays presented at the international conference on Cultural Crises in Art and Literature, held in Groningen in November 2002, in a special session on the question of the autonomy of the arts. Do we witness, in western culture, the end of the autonomy of the arts as it has been conceptualized and institutionalized since the eighteenth century? Indeed, developments of quite a different nature seem to have contributed to a blurring of boundaries between art and non-art, art and the market, art and politics or ethics, as well as between the arts themselves, and between 'high' and 'low' art. Although this volume does not pretend to map this complex process in its entirety - partly because it is impossible to step out of one's own history - it is meant as a contribution to the elucidation of the process itself, offering some challenging explanations as to the heat of the current debate.

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