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Aesthetic Life

The Past and Present of Artistic Cultures

Harry Redner

Harry Redner's Aesthetic Life examines the arts - all the arts from the earliest Paleolithic painting to the latest post-Modern music. Its aim is to account for the nature of art in its historical totality and to assess the role it has played in human life throughout the ages. In seeking to review the history of art in all civilizations and separate cultures, this work is intensely aware of the critical state of the arts towards which this history seems to be heading. None of the great artistic cultures has survived intact as a living tradition. All have been more or less consigned to museums, the mausoleums of dead art. India, China, Japan, Byzantium, Persia, all the sources of the heritage of great art have dwindled away. The last of these, Europe, also faltered in the course of the twentieth century, which began with so much hope - it seemed for a while that the Modernist upsurge of rebellious energy was to be the first stage of a new culture. In the present anarchic age of post-Modernism, where 'anything goes,' it has become apparent that Modernism was merely the last stage of European culture. With all these great traditions gone, Aesthetic Life asks 'What is to be done about art now?'-and considers possible answers.
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University Press of America
Pages: 516 • Trim: 6 x 9
978-0-7618-3678-0 • Paperback • February 2007 • $87.99 • (£68.00)
Subjects: Art / Criticism & Theory
Harry Redner is a scholar and author who has published books in many fields. He has taught at universities in Europe, Australia, and the U.S.A.
Part 1 Introduction
Part 2 Basic Aesthetic Qualities
Chapter 3 The Aesthetic Ethos
Chapter 4 Humour and Beauty
Chapter 5 Form and Design
Part 6 Mimesis and Representation
Chapter 7 Miming and Acting
Chapter 8 Images
Chapter 9 Pictorial Representation
Chapter 10 Literary Representation
Chapter 11 Poetry and Truth
Part 12 Expression
Chapter 13 Dramatic Expression
Chapter 14 Musical Expression
Part 15 History of Art or Artistic Culture
Chapter 16 Introduction
Part 17 Art, High Art, and Great Art
Chapter 18 Art - the constitution of the work of art
Chapter 19 High Art - style, genre, and manner
Chapter 20 Great art - universality and scope
Part 21 Studies of the Great Art Traditions
Chapter 22 Greece-Rome and China-Japan
Chapter 23 Byzantium, India, and Persia
Part 24 The Great Art Tradition of Europe
Chapter 25 Gothic and Classical
Chapter 26 Modernity and Modernism
Part 27 Critique of Judgement and Criticism of Criticism
Chapter 28 Introduction
Part 29 The Culture of Criticism
Chapter 30 The Rise of Modern Criticism
Chapter 31 Consensus in Judgement
Part 32 The Nature of Criticism
Chapter 33 Analysis
Chapter 34 Interpretation
Chapter 35 Evaluation
Part 36 The Future of Criticism and Art
Chapter 37 The Fall of Modern Criticism
Chapter 38 The End of Art? - a conclusion

Aesthetic Life

The Past and Present of Artistic Cultures

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Paperback
Summary
Summary
  • Harry Redner's Aesthetic Life examines the arts - all the arts from the earliest Paleolithic painting to the latest post-Modern music. Its aim is to account for the nature of art in its historical totality and to assess the role it has played in human life throughout the ages. In seeking to review the history of art in all civilizations and separate cultures, this work is intensely aware of the critical state of the arts towards which this history seems to be heading. None of the great artistic cultures has survived intact as a living tradition. All have been more or less consigned to museums, the mausoleums of dead art. India, China, Japan, Byzantium, Persia, all the sources of the heritage of great art have dwindled away. The last of these, Europe, also faltered in the course of the twentieth century, which began with so much hope - it seemed for a while that the Modernist upsurge of rebellious energy was to be the first stage of a new culture. In the present anarchic age of post-Modernism, where 'anything goes,' it has become apparent that Modernism was merely the last stage of European culture. With all these great traditions gone, Aesthetic Life asks 'What is to be done about art now?'-and considers possible answers.
Details
Details
  • University Press of America
    Pages: 516 • Trim: 6 x 9
    978-0-7618-3678-0 • Paperback • February 2007 • $87.99 • (£68.00)
    Subjects: Art / Criticism & Theory
Author
Author
  • Harry Redner is a scholar and author who has published books in many fields. He has taught at universities in Europe, Australia, and the U.S.A.
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
  • Part 1 Introduction
    Part 2 Basic Aesthetic Qualities
    Chapter 3 The Aesthetic Ethos
    Chapter 4 Humour and Beauty
    Chapter 5 Form and Design
    Part 6 Mimesis and Representation
    Chapter 7 Miming and Acting
    Chapter 8 Images
    Chapter 9 Pictorial Representation
    Chapter 10 Literary Representation
    Chapter 11 Poetry and Truth
    Part 12 Expression
    Chapter 13 Dramatic Expression
    Chapter 14 Musical Expression
    Part 15 History of Art or Artistic Culture
    Chapter 16 Introduction
    Part 17 Art, High Art, and Great Art
    Chapter 18 Art - the constitution of the work of art
    Chapter 19 High Art - style, genre, and manner
    Chapter 20 Great art - universality and scope
    Part 21 Studies of the Great Art Traditions
    Chapter 22 Greece-Rome and China-Japan
    Chapter 23 Byzantium, India, and Persia
    Part 24 The Great Art Tradition of Europe
    Chapter 25 Gothic and Classical
    Chapter 26 Modernity and Modernism
    Part 27 Critique of Judgement and Criticism of Criticism
    Chapter 28 Introduction
    Part 29 The Culture of Criticism
    Chapter 30 The Rise of Modern Criticism
    Chapter 31 Consensus in Judgement
    Part 32 The Nature of Criticism
    Chapter 33 Analysis
    Chapter 34 Interpretation
    Chapter 35 Evaluation
    Part 36 The Future of Criticism and Art
    Chapter 37 The Fall of Modern Criticism
    Chapter 38 The End of Art? - a conclusion

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