Traces the decline of beauty as an ideal from early German romanticism to the twentieth century. The American abstract expressionist painter Barnett Newman famously declared in 1948 that the impulse of modern art is to destroy beauty. Not long after that, Andy Warhol was reconciling the world of art...

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1. Verfasser:	Vercellone, Federico (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:	English Italian
Veröffentlicht:	Albany : SUNY Press, State University of New York, 2017.
Schriftenreihe:	SUNY series in contemporary Italian philosophy.
Schlagworte:	1900-1999 Aesthetics, Modern > 20th century. Aesthetics, Modern. Esthétique > 20e siècle. 1900 - 1999. ART > General. Aesthetics, Modern
Online-Zugang:	Volltext
Zusammenfassung:	Traces the decline of beauty as an ideal from early German romanticism to the twentieth century. The American abstract expressionist painter Barnett Newman famously declared in 1948 that the impulse of modern art is to destroy beauty. Not long after that, Andy Warhol was reconciling the world of art with the world of everyday life, painting soup cans and soda bottles. In this book, Federico Vercellone provides an account of the decline of beauty as a Platonic ideal from early German Romanticism to the twentieth century. He traces this intellectual trajectory from Goethe, Dilthey, and Nietzsche, through modernism and the avant-garde movement, to the work of Adorno and Heidegger. Rather than the death or destruction of beauty, Vercellone argues instead that beauty in the twentieth century came back to live in reality and everyday life. He suggests this is a new edition of the classical ideal rather than an abandonment of it, and further makes the case for the ecological significance of this orientation and outlook.
Beschreibung:	1 online resource.
Bibliographie:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:	9781438465890 1438465890