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Aesthetics after Modernism defends the ongoing relevance of aesthetics to art after modernism. Diarmuid Costello traces the art world's rejection of aesthetics to Clement Greenberg's success in co-opting the discourse of aesthetics, notably Kant's aesthetics, to underwrite a formalist theory of aesthetic value. This has led to Kant's aesthetics being tarred with the brush of Greenbergian formalism; it has also encouraged subsequent critics and theorists to miss the resources in Kant's aesthetics for capturing our cognitive relation to precisely the kinds of art that interest them.

Note biographique

Diarmuid Costello is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Warwick. He is the author of On Photography: A Philosophical Inquiry (Routledge, 2018) and numerous articles and edited collections across aesthetics and art theory. He has particular interests in Kant and the philosophy of photography and contemporary art. He is a previous Chair of the British Society of Aesthetics, and a past recipient of the AHRC Major Research Award, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation 'Experienced Researcher' fellowship, and the Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellowship. His next book, a collection of stand-alone essays pairing individual artworks with particular philosophical concepts, models a new way of doing the philosophy of contemporary art.

Table des matières

• Introduction


• Part I Greenberg's Modernist Aesthetic


• Chapter 1: Modernism and Formalism: The Internal Structure of Greenbergian Theory


• Chapter 2: Modernism and Formalism: The Internal Limits of Greenbergian Theory


• Part II The Legacy of Greenbergian Theory


• Chapter 3: The Afterlife of Medium-Specificity I: Fried on the 'Theatre' and 'Theatricality'


• Chapter 4: The Afterlife of Medium-Specificity II: Krauss on the 'Post-Medium Condition'


• Chapter 5: The Afterlife of Formalist Criticism I: de Duve on Judging 'This is art'


• Chapter 6: The Afterlife of Formalist Criticism II: Danto on the 'Aesthetics of Form'


• Part III Kant's Theory of Art Reconsidered


• Chapter 7: Kant's Aesthetics and the Challenge of Conceptual Art


• Chapter 8: The Scope of Kant's Theory of Art


• Chapter 9: The Actuality of Kant's Aesthetics

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