Uncontrollable beauty toward a new aesthetics

• Corporate Author: School of Visual Arts (New York, N.Y.)
• Other Authors: Beckley, Bill 1946-, Shapiro, David 1916-
• Format: Unknown
• Language: English
• Published: New York Allworth Press 1998
• Series: Aesthetics today
• Subjects: Aesthetics; Art criticism; Aesthetics, Modern > 20th century
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 In this acclaimed art anthology, a prestigious group of artists, critics, and literati offer their incisive reflections on the questions of beauty, past, present, and future, and how it has become a domain of multiple perspectives. Here is Meyer Schapiro's skeptical argument on perfection . . . contributions from artists as profound as Louise Bourgeois and Agnes Martin . . . and reflections of critics, curators, and philosophers on the problems of beauty and relativism. Readers will find fascinating insights from such art theorists and critics as Dave Hickey, Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe, Donald Kuspit, Carter Ratcliff, and dozens more.