Dehumanization of Art and Other Essays on Art, Culture, and Literature

Name: Dehumanization of Art and Other Essays on Art, Culture, and Literature
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ISBN: 9780691019611

ISBN-10: 0691019614

ISBN-13: 9780691019611

Edition: 1969 (Revised)

Authors: Josï¿½ Ortega y Gasset, Jose Ortega Y Gasset

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No work of Spanish philosopher and essayist Joseacute; Ortega y Gasset has been more frequently cited, admired, or criticized than his defense of modernism, "The Dehumanization of Art." In the essay, originally published in Spanish in 1925, Ortega grappled philosophically with the newness of nonrepresentational art and sought to make it more understandable to a public confused by it. Many embraced the essay as a manifesto extolling the virtues of vanguard artists and promoting their efforts to abandon the realism and the romanticism of the nineteenth century.The "dehumanization" of the title, which was meant descriptively rather than pejoratively, referred most literally to the absence of…

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List price: $26.95
Copyright year: 1969
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 11/21/1968
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 204
Size: 5.00" wide x 7.95" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English