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Aesthetics of Discomfort
Frederick Luis Aldama
Herbert S. Lindenberger
其他書名
Conversations on Disquieting Art
出版
University of Michigan Press
, 2016-02-02
主題
Art / General
Art / Criticism & Theory
Art / Art & Politics
Literary Criticism / General
Philosophy / Aesthetics
Science / Life Sciences / Neuroscience
Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
ISBN
0472053000
9780472053001
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=ykqGCwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
Through a series of provocative conversations, Frederick Luis Aldama and Herbert Lindenberger, who have written widely on literature, film, music, and art, locate a place for the discomforting and the often painfully unpleasant within aesthetics. The conversational format allows them to travel informally across many centuries and many art forms. They have much to tell one another about the arts since the advent of modernism soon after 1900—the nontonal music, for example, of the Second Vienna School, the chance-directed music and dance of John Cage and Merce Cunningham, the in-your-faceness of such diverse visual artists as Francis Bacon, Pablo Picasso, Willem de Kooning, Egon Schiele, Otto Dix, and Damien Hirst. They demonstrate as well a long tradition of discomforting art stretching back many centuries, for example, in the Last Judgments of innumerable Renaissance painters, in Goya’s so-called “black” paintings, in Wagner’s Tristan chord, and in the subtexts of Shakespearean works such as
King Lear
and
Othello
. This book is addressed at once to scholars of literature, art history, musicology, and cinema. Although its conversational format eschews the standard conventions of scholarly argument, it provides original insights both into particular art forms and into individual works within these forms. Among other matters, it demonstrates how recent work in neuroscience may provide insights in the ways that consumers process difficult and discomforting works of art. The book also contributes to current aesthetic theory by charting the dialogue that goes on—especially in aesthetically challenging works—between creator, artifact, and consumer.