Towards an Aesthetics of Production - Softcover

Egenhofer, Sebastion

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3037348852 ISBN 13: 9783037348857

Publisher: Diaphanes, 2018

Synopsis

Throughout the twentieth century, art history has been too narrowly focused on formalism. As a result, analyses regularly reduced works of art to their materials, texture, and composition. By contrast, art historian Sebastian Egenhofer takes Gilles Deleuze’s readings of Spinoza, Nietzsche, and Bergson as the basis for a new resistance to the overly reductive account of art history. 
           
After laying out his argument for a new aesthetics of production in introductory chapters that discuss the work of Spinoza, Nietzsche, and Bergson, as well as Heidegger and Kant, Egenhofer applies this theoretical framework to case studies on Michael Asher, Marcel Duchamp, Thomas Hirschhorn, and Piet Mondrian. An aesthetics of production does not, he argues, imply a nostalgia for the artisanal or for a work of art’s singularity, but a way to bring together elements of critical materialism with a thorough reevaluation of the modern art and abstraction.
 

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About the Author

Sebastian Egenhofer is professor of art history at the University of Vienna, where his work focuses on modern and contemporary art, phenomenology, and Marxist critical theory. James Gussen is a Boston-based translator and a former lecturer in French and German language and literature at Harvard University.
 

About this edition

• Publisher: Diaphanes
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 3037348852
• ISBN 13: 9783037348857
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208