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by: Dave Hickey
Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 701.17
EAN: 9780963726407
ISBN: 0963726404
Label: Art Issues Press/Foundation for Advanced Critical Studies
Manufacturer: Art Issues Press/Foundation for Advanced Critical Studies
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 64
Publication Date: December 02, 1993
Publisher: Art Issues Press/Foundation for Advanced Critical Studies
Release Date: December 02, 1993
Sales Rank: 775099
Studio: Art Issues Press/Foundation for Advanced Critical Studies
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An intellectual tour-de-force, this collection of essays asks one of the key questions of our time: Why has talk about art so conspicuously avoided the subject of beauty in recent years? A classic in contemporary art criticism.
Amazon.com Review:
This is a pithy collection of essays on the nature, meaning, and destiny of beauty in the late 20th century. For such a slender volume (just 64 pages), the broad scope of these essays covers a lot of ground. Dave Hickey discusses the work of Raphael, Andy Warhol, Caravaggio, and Michel Foucault, traversing centuries of ideas about aesthetics, sexuality, religion, and culture. Hickey, a professor of art criticism and theory at the University of Nevada and the author of a book of short fiction, boldly ventures to compare Robert Mapplethorpe's X Portfolio to Shakespeare's Sonnets. A delight for the mind.
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Rating: - Smart book about the nature of beauty and desire
and the role of parental organizations in contemporary society.
Hickey's basic premise is that beauty is the agency of visual pleasure. This notion puts Hickey in opposition with a lot of art criticism which is largely concerned with how art is "good for you." Most theorists and scholars are primarily interested in what the art is "saying" -- i.e., interested in art's virtue and ethics but not with its efficacy.
Hickey, however, argues that it doesn't matter _what_ the movie ... Read More
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