Homemade Esthetics: Observations on Art and TasteOxford University Press, 1999 - 220 Seiten A giant of 20th century art criticism, Clement Greenberg (1909-1994) set the terms of critical discourse from the moment he burst onto the scene with his seminal essays "Avant-Garde and Kitsch" (1939) and "Towards a Newer Laocoon" (1940). In this work, which gathers previously uncollected essays and a series of seminars delivered at Bennington College in 1971, Greenberg provides his most expansive statement of his views on taste and quality in art. He insists that despite the attempts of modern artists to escape the jurisdiction of taste by producing an art so disjunctive that it cannot be judged, taste is inexorable. He maintains that standards of quality in art, ohe artist's responsibility to seek out the hardest demands of a medium, and the critic's responsibility to discriminate, are essential conditions for great art. He discusses the interplay of expectation and surprise in aesthetic experience, and the exalted consciousness produced by great art. Homemade Esthetics allows us to watch the critic's mind at work, defending (and at times reconsidering) his controversial and influential theories. Charles Harrison's introduction to this volume places Homemade Esthetics in the context of Greenberg's work and the evolution of 20th century criticism. |
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The Colonies Europe in America | 1 |
A New Nation The American Experiment | 16 |
The Nineteenth Century A Quiet Court | 33 |
The Twentieth Century and Beyond A Busy Court | 50 |
The Establishment Clause Public Schools | 73 |
The Establishment Clause Private Schools | 93 |
The Free Exercise Clause Religious Liberty | 113 |
Epilogue The Supreme Court and the Road Ahead | 135 |
CHRONOLOGY | 144 |
FURTHER READING | 149 |
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