Against aesthetic exceptionalism /
De Boever, Arne,
Against aesthetic exceptionalism / Arne De Boever. - Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press, [2019] ©2019 - 1 online resource - Forerunners : ideas first / from the University of Minnesota Press . - Forerunners (Minneapolis, Minn.) .
Includes bibliographical references.
Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Introduction: The Toporovski Affair; 1. Aesthetic and Political Exceptionalism; 2. Democratic Exceptionalisms (On Sam Durant's Scaffold); 3. Against Monarchical Art: Alex Robbins's "Complements"; 4. The Democratic Anarchy of Unexceptional Art; 5. Complement: Naked Painting (On the Work of Becky Kolsrud); Conclusion: Unexceptional Rubens; Acknowledgments
Here, Arne De Boever proposes the notion of aesthetic exceptionalism to describe the widespread belief that art and artists are exceptional. Against Aesthetic Exceptionalism challenges that belief by focusing on the sovereign artist as genius, as well as the original artwork as the foundation of the art market. Engaging with sculpture, conceptual artwork, and painting by emerging and established artists, De Boever proposes a worldly, democratic notion of unexceptional art as an antidote to the problems of aesthetic exceptionalism.
9781452962450 1452962456
Aesthetics.
Exceptionalism.
Exceptionnalisme.
ART--Criticism & Theory.
Aesthetics.
Exceptionalism.
Electronic books.
N85
Against aesthetic exceptionalism / Arne De Boever. - Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press, [2019] ©2019 - 1 online resource - Forerunners : ideas first / from the University of Minnesota Press . - Forerunners (Minneapolis, Minn.) .
Includes bibliographical references.
Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Introduction: The Toporovski Affair; 1. Aesthetic and Political Exceptionalism; 2. Democratic Exceptionalisms (On Sam Durant's Scaffold); 3. Against Monarchical Art: Alex Robbins's "Complements"; 4. The Democratic Anarchy of Unexceptional Art; 5. Complement: Naked Painting (On the Work of Becky Kolsrud); Conclusion: Unexceptional Rubens; Acknowledgments
Here, Arne De Boever proposes the notion of aesthetic exceptionalism to describe the widespread belief that art and artists are exceptional. Against Aesthetic Exceptionalism challenges that belief by focusing on the sovereign artist as genius, as well as the original artwork as the foundation of the art market. Engaging with sculpture, conceptual artwork, and painting by emerging and established artists, De Boever proposes a worldly, democratic notion of unexceptional art as an antidote to the problems of aesthetic exceptionalism.
9781452962450 1452962456
Aesthetics.
Exceptionalism.
Exceptionnalisme.
ART--Criticism & Theory.
Aesthetics.
Exceptionalism.
Electronic books.
N85