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Uncontrollable beauty, toward a new aesthetics, edited by Bill Beckley with David Shapiro

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Uncontrollable beauty, toward a new aesthetics, edited by Bill Beckley with David Shapiro

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eng

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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index present

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non fiction

Main title

Uncontrollable beauty

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bibliographydictionaries

Responsibility statement

edited by Bill Beckley with David Shapiro

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Aesthetics today

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toward a new aesthetics

Table Of Contents

Generosity and the black swan / Bill Beckley -- Preface / David Shapiro -- Le livre est sur la table / John Ashbery -- On perfection, coherence, and unity of form and content / Meyer Schapiro -- Enter the dragon: on the vernacular of beauty / Dave Hickey -- Beauty and morality / Arthur C. Danto -- Beauty and the contemporary sublime / Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe -- Notes on beauty / Peter Schjeldahl -- Contratemplates / Marjorie Welish -- A sign of beauty / Robert C. Morgan -- On Platonic cosmetics / Jacqueline Lichtenstein -- Freud with Kant? The enigma of pleasure / Hubert Damisch -- Arousal by image / David Freedberg -- Doctor lawyer Indian chief: "Primitivism" in Twentieth-century art at the Museum of Modern Art in 1984 / Thomas McEvilley -- On "Doctor lawyer Indian chief ..." / letters by William Rubin and Kirk Varnedoe with a reply by Thomas McEvilley -- On "Doctor lawyer Indian chief": part II / a letter by William Rubin with a reply by Thomas McEvilley -- On the claims and critics of the "Primitivism" show / Kirk Varnedoe -- The practice of beauty / James Hillman -- Ode to Willem de Kooning / Frank O'Hara -- Venus unveiled: De Kooning's melodrama of vulgarity / Donald Kuspit -- The mind and body of the dreamer / John Yau -- Mondrian's secret / David Shapiro -- A conversation between Julia Kristeva and Ariane Lopez-Huici / Julia Kristeva and Ariane Lopez-Huici -- Sunday afternoons: a conversation and a remark on beauty / Louise Bourgeois -- Sentences on the House and other sentences / John Hejduk -- Aunts / Max Fierst -- On beauty / Kenneth Koch -- An aesthetic of the cool / Robert Farris Thompson -- The violet hour: an essay on beauty / Carter Ratcliff -- Beauty is the mystery of life / Agnes Martin

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