Roni Grén

The Concept of the Animal and Modern Theories of Art (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the importance of the animal in modern art theory. It focuses on the conceptual connections between the notions of art and animality in art theory between the 1750s and 1950s, and clarifies the status of the animal under modernity.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351671736
• Artikelnr.: 49132653

Autorenporträt

Ph.D. Roni Grén is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Turku, Finland. His topics of research have been centered on modern art theory and French culture. Formerly, he has written a book on Georges Bataille's writings on art, and is currently working on research entitled "Prehistory and Modernism."

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part 1 The Exceptionality of the Human Spirit
The Human Exception
Natural Aesthetics
Origin and Language
Nature Created in Man's Image
To Have and Have Not
Part 2 The Animal and the Image
Introduction: Discourse and Imagicity
Condillac and Animal Imagination
Rousseau and the Noble Visual
Diderot's Suspicion
A Concluding Note
Part 3 Art and Evolution
Introduction: Darwin's Century
The Subjective and the Objective
The Crisis of Symbolism and the Violent Other
Evolution of the Species and the Creative Sentiment
Nietzsche
Part 4 The Poetic Lie
The Primitive Origin of Art
Gaze and the Invisible
The World of Abstraction and the Revolution of the Beasts
Dream, Debauchery, Myth
Part 5 Conclusion: The Modern Other
Animalization of Art
The Formalist World of Creation
The Surrealist Solutions
The Animal Itself
Afterword
Bibliography
Index
Table of Contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part 1 The Exceptionality of the Human Spirit
The Human Exception
Natural Aesthetics
Origin and Language
Nature Created in Man's Image
To Have and Have Not
Part 2 The Animal and the Image
Introduction: Discourse and Imagicity
Condillac and Animal Imagination
Rousseau and the Noble Visual
Diderot's Suspicion
A Concluding Note
Part 3 Art and Evolution
Introduction: Darwin's Century
The Subjective and the Objective
The Crisis of Symbolism and the Violent Other
Evolution of the Species and the Creative Sentiment
Nietzsche
Part 4 The Poetic Lie
The Primitive Origin of Art
Gaze and the Invisible
The World of Abstraction and the Revolution of the Beasts
Dream, Debauchery, Myth
Part 5 Conclusion: The Modern Other
Animalization of Art
The Formalist World of Creation
The Surrealist Solutions
The Animal Itself
Afterword
Bibliography
Index