The Insistence Of Art: Aesthetic Philosophy After Early Modernity
by Paul A. Kottman /
2017 / English / PDF
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Philosophers of aesthetics, from Baumgarten to Hegel, paid
considerable attention to art and artists of the early modern
period. Yet early modern artistic practices scarcely figure in
recent work on aesthetics as a branch of philosophy in the
eighteenth century. This book addresses that gap, elaborating the
extent to which artworks and practices of the fifteenth through the
eighteenth centuries were accompanied by an immense range of
discussions about the arts and their relation to one another.
Philosophers of aesthetics, from Baumgarten to Hegel, paid
considerable attention to art and artists of the early modern
period. Yet early modern artistic practices scarcely figure in
recent work on aesthetics as a branch of philosophy in the
eighteenth century. This book addresses that gap, elaborating the
extent to which artworks and practices of the fifteenth through the
eighteenth centuries were accompanied by an immense range of
discussions about the arts and their relation to one another.
Rather than take art as a stand-in for or reflection of some other
historical event or social phenomenon, this book treats art itself
as the main issue. Far from being a passive mirror for already
established sociohistorical realities, art is a fundamental matrix
through which social reality is grasped. Each chapter shows how we
might better understand central artistic and philosophical
preoccupations of the preceding centuries and our own time by
asking after both early modern art’s claim on philosophy and
philosophical realizations of the insistence of art.
Rather than take art as a stand-in for or reflection of some other
historical event or social phenomenon, this book treats art itself
as the main issue. Far from being a passive mirror for already
established sociohistorical realities, art is a fundamental matrix
through which social reality is grasped. Each chapter shows how we
might better understand central artistic and philosophical
preoccupations of the preceding centuries and our own time by
asking after both early modern art’s claim on philosophy and
philosophical realizations of the insistence of art.
