Title & Author:

Uncontrollable beauty : toward a new aesthetics / edited by Bill Beckley with David Shapiro.

Publication:

New York : Allworth Press : School of Visual Arts, ©1998.

Description:

xxiv, 423 pages ; 24 cm

Series:

Aesthetics today.

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Generosity and the black swan / Bill Beckley -- Preface / David Shapiro -- Le livre est sur la table / John Ashbery -- On perfection, coherence, and unity of form and content / Meyer Schapiro -- Enter the dragon: on the vernacular of beauty / Dave Hickey -- Beauty and morality / Arthur C. Danto -- Beauty and the contemporary sublime / Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe -- Notes on beauty / Peter Schjeldahl -- Contratemplates / Marjorie Welish -- A sign of beauty / Robert C. Morgan -- On Platonic cosmetics / Jacqueline Lichtenstein -- Freud with Kant? The enigma of pleasure / Hubert Damisch -- Arousal by image / David Freedberg -- Doctor lawyer Indian chief: "Primitivism" in Twentieth-century art at the Museum of Modern Art in 1984 / Thomas McEvilley -- On "Doctor lawyer Indian chief ..." / letters by William Rubin and Kirk Varnedoe with a reply by Thomas McEvilley -- On "Doctor lawyer Indian chief": part II / a letter by William Rubin with a reply by Thomas McEvilley -- On the claims and critics of the "Primitivism" show / Kirk Varnedoe -- The practice of beauty / James Hillman -- Ode to Willem de Kooning / Frank O'Hara -- Venus unveiled: De Kooning's melodrama of vulgarity / Donald Kuspit -- The mind and body of the dreamer / John Yau -- Mondrian's secret / David Shapiro -- A conversation between Julia Kristeva and Ariane Lopez-Huici / Julia Kristeva and Ariane Lopez-Huici -- Sunday afternoons: a conversation and a remark on beauty / Louise Bourgeois -- Sentences on the House and other sentences / John Hejduk -- Aunts / Max Fierst -- On beauty / Kenneth Koch -- An aesthetic of the cool / Robert Farris Thompson -- The violet hour: an essay on beauty / Carter Ratcliff -- Beauty is the mystery of life / Agnes Martin.

Summary:

"Debates on the role of beauty in twentieth-century art and culture"--Back cover.

ISBN:

1880559900
9781880559901
1581151969 (paperback)
9781581151961 (paperback)

Subject:

Aesthetics, Modern 20th century.
Art criticism.
Esthétique 20e siècle.
Critique d'art.
art criticism.
Aesthetics, Modern
Ästhetik
Aufsatzsammlung
Kunsttheorie.
Schoonheid.
Estética (arte)
Crítica de arte.

Form/genre:

Art criticism
Aufsatzsammlung.
Critiques d'art.

Added entries:

Beckley, Bill, 1946-
Shapiro, David, 1947-2024.
Aesthetics today.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 179187
Call No.: N66.U53 (ID98-B1650)
Status: Available