Against aesthetic exceptionalism / Arne De Boever.
Material type: TextSeries: Forerunners (Minneapolis, Minn.)Publisher: Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press, [2019]Copyright date: ©2019Description: 1 online resourceContent type:- text
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- 9781452962450
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- N85
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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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