Art and life in aestheticism, de-humanizing and re-humanizing art, the artist, and the artistic receptor, edited by Kelly Comfort
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Art and life in aestheticism, de-humanizing and re-humanizing art, the artist, and the artistic receptor, edited by Kelly Comfort
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Art and life in aestheticism
Nature of contents
bibliography
Responsibility statement
edited by Kelly Comfort
Sub title
de-humanizing and re-humanizing art, the artist, and the artistic receptor
Summary
"Art for art's sake addresses the relationship between art and life, between the aesthetic and the social, and promotes the former term over the latter one in each instance. Although it has long been argued that aestheticism aims to de-humanize art, this volume seeks to consider the counterclaim that such de-humanization can also lead to re-humanization, to a deepened relationship between the aesthetic sphere and the world at large and between the artistic receptor and his or her human existence"--provided by publisher
Table Of Contents
Introduction : reflections on the relationship between the art and life in aestheticism / Kelly Comfort -- The critic as cosmopolite : Baudelaire's international sensibility and the transformation of viewer subjectivity / Margueritte Murphy -- Rossetti's aesthetically saturated readings : art's de-humanizing power / Ileana Marin -- Dickens' la carte : aesthetic victualism and the invigoration of the artist in Huysmans' Against nature / Paul Fox -- Aesthetic vampirism : Pater, Wilde, and the irony of the modern object / Andrew Eastham -- The de-humanization of the artistic receptor : the George Circle's rejection of Paterian aestheticism / Yvonne Ivory -- Art for the body's sake : Nietzsche's physical aestheticism / Kael Ashbaugh -- From "God of the creation" to "hangman God" : Joyce's re-assessment of aestheticism / Daniel M. Shea -- The aesthetic anxiety : avant-garde poetics, autonomous aesthetics, and the idea of politics / Robert Archambeau -- On the Cold War, American aestheticism, the Nabokov problem - and me / Gene H. Bell-Villada -- Beauty by damned : or why Adorno valorizes carrion, stench, and putrefaction / Charles B. Sumner -- "This temptation to be undone" : Sontag, Barthes, and the uses of style / Sarah Garland -- Art for heart's sake : the aesthetic existences of Kierkegaard, Pater, and Iser / Ben De Bruyn
Contributor
Subject
- Aesthetics
- Art + Philosophy
- European literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
- European literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- Aestheticism (Literature)
- English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- Art and literature
- Literature + Philosophy
- English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
Incoming Resources
- Has instance1
Outgoing Resources
- Classification2
- Contributor1
- Subject9
- Aesthetics
- Art + Philosophy
- European literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
- European literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- Aestheticism (Literature)
- English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- Art and literature
- Literature + Philosophy
- English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism