Daniel Herwitz

Cosmopolitan Aesthetics (eBook, ePUB)

Art in a Global World

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

New arts created in the context of new social realities are impacting our traditional ideas about aesthetics. Art, art markets and aesthetics now interact in ways that demand new forms of thought and revision of old. Cosmopolitan Aesthetics presents the first thorough account of the challenges facing aesthetics today in the light of globalization, introducing the history that underpins them.

This is an ideal starting point for anyone looking to better understand 21st century art and aesthetics. Beginning with globalization and the nature of global art markets today, Daniel Herwitz offers new insight into postcolonial aesthetics, colonial legacies, cultural property, the problems of global communication and aesthetic diversity, and the uneasy connection between aesthetics and politics, before providing a crucial grounding in 18th and 19th century aesthetics, with discussion of the three great modern aestheticians David Hume, Immanuel Kant and G.W.F. Hegel.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350075269
• Artikelnr.: 57903539

Autorenporträt

Daniel Herwitz is Fredrick Huetwell Professor of Philosophy, History of Art and Comparative Literature at the University of Michigan, USA where for a decade he directed the Institute for the Humanities. His previously published books include Aesthetics, Arts and Politics in a Global World (2017), the award winning Star as Icon (2008), and M.F. Husain (1988).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
List of Figures
How to Use This Book
1. Introduction to Globalization
2. The Global Art World Today: Problems and Prospects
3. Aesthetic Cosmopolitanism
4. Cultural Property and Aesthetic Synergy
5. Meaning and Medium in Art
6. Taste in its 18th Century Context
7. Aesthetic Judgment from a Cosmopolitan Perspective
Bibliography
Index