Subversion And Subsidy: Contemporary Art and Aesthetics

Rainer Rochlitz

ISBN 10: 1905422709 / ISBN 13: 9781905422708

Published by Seagull Books, 2009

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Subversion And Subsidy: Contemporary Art and Aesthetics
• Publisher: Seagull Books
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1905422709
• ISBN 13: 9781905422708
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: International Edition
• Condition: New Books

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Synopsis

Art today is in deep crisis. Criticism seems to have abandoned any notion of evaluation, the public has been denied the possibility of understanding, and aesthetics have lost all legitimacy. Formerly, artists claimed their right to decide for themselves what counted as a work of art, thanks to the subversion of the established criteria of aesthetic judgment. But that very subversion is today the object of subsidy and support by museums and galleries, anxious to display their liberalism. A new and ambiguous game of complicity and antagonism has united artists and institutions.

Yet, however much the alliance of subversion and subsidy aims to exclude it, aesthetic judgment remains a necessity. Whatever the nature of a work of art, it can only be one if the artistic quality it claims for itself can be justified and shared. As symbol it cannot be reduced to a symptom; as an object of judgment it cannot depend on simple individual preferences. Thus it is now urgent to find aesthetic arguments that pay proper attention to the internal logic of artworks, arguments that are rigorous without claiming absolute truth.

About the Author

Rainer Rochlitz (1946-2002) was a philosopher, aesthetician and translator.

Dafydd Roberts is a translator from French and German, mainly in the fields of art, architecture and cultural history.