Aisthesis Scenes from the Aesthetic Regime of Art

Name: Aisthesis Scenes from the Aesthetic Regime of Art
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ISBN: 9781781680896

ISBN-10: 1781680892

ISBN-13: 9781781680896

Edition: 2013

Authors: Jacques Ranciere, Zakir Paul

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Composed in a series of scenes, Aisthesis–Rancière’s definitive statement on the aesthetic–takes its reader from Dresden in 1764 to New York in 1941. Along the way, we view the Belvedere Torso with Winckelmann, accompany Hegel to the museum and Mallarmé to the Folies-Bergère, attend a lecture by Emerson, visit exhibitions in Paris and New York, factories in Berlin, and film sets in Moscow and Hollywood. Rancière uses these sites and events—some famous, others forgotten—to ask what becomes art and what comes of it. He shows how a regime of artistic perception and interpretation was constituted and transformed by erasing the specificities of the different arts, as well as the borders that…

Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Verso Books
Publication date: 6/4/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 304
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.298



Acknowledgments


Prelude



Divided Beauty (Dresden, 1764)



The Little Gods of the Street (Munich-Berlin, 1828)



Plebeian Heaven (Paris, 1830)



The Poet of the New World (Boston, 1841-New York, 1855)



The Gymnasts of the Impossible (Paris, 1879)



The Dance of Light (Paris, Folies Bergï¿½re, 1893)



The Immobile Theatre (Paris 1894-95)



Decorative Art as Social Art: Temple, House, Factory (Paris-London-Berlin)



Master of Surfaces (Paris, 1902)



The Temple Staircase (Moscow-Dresden, 1912)



The Machine and Its Shadow (Hollywood, 1916)



The Majesty of the Moment (New York, 1921)



Seeing Things Through Things (Moscow, 1926)



The Cruel Radiance of What Is (Hale County, 1936-NewYork, 1941)


Index