Only a promise of happiness the place of beauty in a world of art
Neither art nor philosophy was kind to beauty during the twentieth century. Much modern art disdains beauty, and many philosophers deeply suspect that beauty merely paints over or distracts us from horrors. Intellectuals consigned the passions of beauty to the margins, replacing them with the anemic...
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press
2007
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Plato or Schopenhauer?
- A feature of appearance?
- Modernist voices
- Modernist appropriations
- Criticism and value
- The role of reviewing
- Beauty, love, friendship
- Beauty, attractiveness, evolution
- Art, beauty, desire
- Beauty, community, universality
- Uniformity, style, distinction
- Aesthetics, directness, individuality
- Love and death in Venice
- Manet's Olympia
- Interpretation, breadth, depth
- Interpretation, beauty, goodness
- Beauty, uncertainty, happiness.
