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Against aesthetic exceptionalism / Arne De Boever.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Forerunners (Minneapolis, Minn.)Publisher: Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press, [2019]Copyright date: ©2019Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
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  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781452962450
  • 1452962456
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Against aesthetic exceptionalism.LOC classification:
  • N85
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Contents:
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
Summary: 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.
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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.

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