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Towards an Aesthetics of Production
Sebastion Egenhofer
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Paperback. Translator(s): Gussen, Sebastian. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: ABA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 250 x 150 x 15. Weight in Grams: 666.
Throughout the twentieth century, art history has been too narrowly focused on formalism. As a result, analyses regularly reduced works of art to their materials, texture, and composition. By contrast, art historian Sebastian Egenhofer takes Gilles Deleuze's readings of Spinoza, Nietzsche, and Bergson as the basis for a new resistance to the overly reductive account of art history. After laying out his argument for a new aesthetics of production in introductory chapters that discuss the work of Spinoza, Nietzsche, and Bergson, as well as Heidegger and Kant, Egenhofer applies this theoretical framework to case studies on Michael Asher, Marcel Duchamp, ... Read more
Throughout the twentieth century, art history has been too narrowly focused on formalism. As a result, analyses regularly reduced works of art to their materials, texture, and composition. By contrast, art historian Sebastian Egenhofer takes Gilles Deleuze's readings of Spinoza, Nietzsche, and Bergson as the basis for a new resistance to the overly reductive account of art history. After laying out his argument for a new aesthetics of production in introductory chapters that discuss the work of Spinoza, Nietzsche, and Bergson, as well as Heidegger and Kant, Egenhofer applies this theoretical framework to case studies on Michael Asher, Marcel Duchamp, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Diaphanes AG Switzerland
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
Zurich, Switzerland
ISBN
9783037348857
SKU
V9783037348857
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About Sebastion Egenhofer
Sebastian Egenhofer is professor of art history at the University of Vienna, where his work focuses on modern and contemporary art, phenomenology, and Marxist critical theory. James Gussen is a Boston-based translator and a former lecturer in French and German language and literature at Harvard University.
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