Rex Butler

Stanley Cavell and the Arts (eBook, ePUB)

Philosophy and Popular Culture

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In the late 1990s, Rosalind Krauss, one of the principal theorists of post-modernism in the arts, began using the term "post-medium" in her work. It was a nod to the American "ordinary language" philosopher Stanley Cavell, who had been thinking through a concept of medium in art for 30 years.

Today with the decline of post-modernism, Stanley Cavell has emerged as one of the most important figures for thinking again about the visual arts, film and theatre. Stanley Cavell and the Arts looks at Cavell's extensive writings on a wide variety of artforms and at a number of writers (Michael Fried, William Rothman) influenced by his work. Over a 50-year career, Cavell wrote about visual art, photography, classical music, Shakespeare, the plays of Samuel Beckett and perhaps most notably Hollywood cinema.

Stanley Cavell and the Arts offers an overview of Cavell's writings on the arts, situating them within his wider philosophical practice, analysing in detail his treatment of particular art forms and looking at the work of those he has deeply shaped.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350008533
• Artikelnr.: 60387943

Autorenporträt

Rex Butler is Professor of Art History at the School of Art, Design and Architecture, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. His previous publications include Jean Baudrillard: The Defence of the Real (1999).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Philosophy 2. Modernity 3. Shakespeare and Theatre 4. The
World Viewed 5. Comedies and Melodramas 6. William Rothman and Film 7.
Michael Fried and Art 8. Photography 9. Cavell's Perfectionism Conclusion
Index