Politics and aesthetics in the arts / edited by Salim Kemal and Ivan Gaskell.
"This volume brings together new essays from distinguished scholars in a variety of disciplines - philosophy, history, literary studies, art history - to explore various ways in which aesthetics, politics and the arts interact with one another. Politics is an elastic concept, covering an oceani...
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Cambridge [England] ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2000.
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| Series: | Cambridge studies in philosophy and the arts.
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Table of Contents:
- Contesting the arts : politics and aesthetics / Salim Kemal and Ivan Gaskell
- "From the stage to the state" : politics, form, and performance in the Elizabethan theatre / Louis Montrose
- Republican beauty, sublime democracy : civic humanism in Gadamer and Rawls / J.M. Bernstein
- Travelers, colonizers, and the aesthetics of self-conception : Denis Diderot on the perils of detachment / Anthony Pagden
- The aesthetics of nationalism and the limits of culture / David Carroll
- Peripheral visions : class, cultural aspiration, and the artisan community in mid-nineteenth-century France / Neil McWilliam
- The war of tradition : Virginia Woolf and the temper of criticism / Daniel Cottom
- The discomfort of strangeness and beauty : art, politics, and aesthetics / Peter de Bolla
- The political autonomy of contemporary art : the case of the 1993 Whitney Biennial / Michael Kelly.