Routledge, 2003 - 185 頁
What
is the role of art in everyday life? Art writing normally contrasts art
with "everyday life." This book explores art as integral to the
everyday life of modern society, providing materials to represent class
and conflict, to explore sex and sexuality, and to think about modern
industry and economic relationships. Art, as we know it, is not common
to all forms of society but is peculiar to our own; what art is changes
with people's conceptions of the tasks of art, conceptions that are
themselves a part of social history. The history of society does not
shape art from the outside, but includes the attempts of artists to find
new ways of making art and thinking about it. The essays in Art in Its
Time offer a critical examination of the central categories of art
theory and history. They propose a mode of understanding grounded in
concrete case studies of ideas and objects, exploring such topics as the
gender content of eighteenth-century theories of the sublime and
beautiful, the role of photography in the production of aesthetic 'aura,
' the limits of political art, and the paradox by which art, pursued
for its own sake with no thought of commercial gain, can produce the
highest-priced of all objects. Employing an unusually wide range of
historical sources and theoretical perspectives to understand the place
of art in capitalist society, Art in Its Time shows a way out of many of
the cul-de-sacs of recent art history and theory.
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