Title & Author:

Aesthetic subjects / Pamela R. Matthews and David McWhirter, editors.

Publication:

Description:

xxviii, 499 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm

Notes:
Based on a conference held in spring 1998 at Texas A & M University.
"This volume grew out of the conference 'Aesthetic Subjects: Pleasures, Ideologies, and Ethics,' sponsored by the Interdisciplinary Group for Humanities Studies at Texas A&M University in the spring of 1998"--P. xi.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Drifting into dangerous waters: the separation of aesthetic experience from the work of art / Martin Jay -- Armed assault / Alphonso Lingis -- Reinventing the wall: looking into Zaha Hadid / Kay Bea Jones -- Pleasures incarnate: aesthetic sentiment in the nineteenth-century work of art / Judith Stoddart -- Caravaggio's secrets / Leo Bersani and Ulysse Dutoit -- The moral content of Nabokov's Lolita / Susan Bordo -- The aesthetics of Jewishness: Shelley Winters / Joseph Litvak -- Theorizing popular practice in eighteenth-century aesthetics: Lord Kames and Alexander Gerard / Maureen Harkin -- The labor theory of beauty: aesthetic subjects, blind justice / Douglas Mao -- Sinthom-osexuality / Lee Edelman -- The combinatorial aesthetics of neurobiology / Barbara Maria Stafford -- Cloth wounds: queer aesthetics of debasement / Kathryn Bond Stockton -- Embodying culture: Dorian's wish / Audrey Jaffe -- Bad taste, the root evil: I.A. Richards and the postnational subject / Howard Horwitz -- The gift: reflections on the Eames House / Beatriz Colomina -- What is construction, what's the aesthetic, what was Adorno doing? / Robert Kaufman -- The secret life of things: Virginia Woolf and the matter of modernism / Bill Brown -- Arresting images / Kathleen Stewart -- The adult's imagination of the child's imagination / Michael Taussig.
"Based on the conference: Aesthetic subjects: pleasures, ideologies, and ethics, sponsored by the Interdisciplinary Group for Humanities Studies held at Texas A&M University in Spring 1998" - p. xi.

Summary:

Recent calls for a return to aesthetics occur precisely at a moment when it is increasingly evident that nothing concerning aesthetics is self-evident anymore. Determined to recover the value of aesthetic experience for artistic, cultural, and social analysis, the contributors to this volume--prominent scholars in literature, philosophy, art history, architecture, history, and anthropology--begin from a shared recognition that ideological readings of the aesthetic have provided invaluable insights, in particular, that analyses of aesthetics within historical and social contexts tell us a great deal about the experience of aesthetic encounters. From multiple and complementary perspectives, the contributors address topics as varied as Nabokov and Dickens, Caravaggio and Shelley Winters, gender and sexuality, advertising and AIDS. Taken together, their essays constitute a sustained and multifarious effort to resituate aesthetic pleasure in the mixed, impure conditions characteristic of every social practice and experience, however privileged or marginalized, and to ask what happens to the aesthetic if we consider it apart from--or at least in tension with--its historically dominant discursive formulations. As such, this volume establishes a renewed sense of aesthetic discourse and its usefulness as a tool for understanding culture. -- Amazon.com.

ISBN:

0816639922 (alk. paper)
9780816639922 (alk. paper)
0816639930
9780816639939

Subject:

Aesthetics Congresses.
Aesthetics.
Ästhetik
Esthetica.
Estetik.
College Station <Tex., 1998>

Form/genre:

Congresses.
Conference publications.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Actes de congrès.

Added entries:

Matthews, Pamela R.
McWhirter, David Bruce.
McWhirter, David

Holdings:

Location: Library main 229122
Call No.: BH19 .A4 1998
Status: Available