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The Aesthetics of Uncertainty
Janet Wolff
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Paperback. Series: Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts. Num Pages: 200 pages, 20 illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA; HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 203 x 152. Weight in Grams: 454.
Feminism, poststructuralism, postcolonialism, and Marxism, among other critical approaches, have undermined traditional notions of aesthetics in recent decades. But questions of aesthetic judgment and pleasure persist, and many critics now seek a "return to aesthetics" or a "return to beauty." Janet Wolff advances a "postcritical" aesthetics grounded in shared values that are negotiated in the context of community. She relates this approach to contemporary debates about a committed politics similarly founded on the abandonment of certainty. Neither universalist nor relativist, the "aesthetics of uncertainty" provides a discourse on beauty that contemporary critics can engage with and offers a basis ... Read more
Feminism, poststructuralism, postcolonialism, and Marxism, among other critical approaches, have undermined traditional notions of aesthetics in recent decades. But questions of aesthetic judgment and pleasure persist, and many critics now seek a "return to aesthetics" or a "return to beauty." Janet Wolff advances a "postcritical" aesthetics grounded in shared values that are negotiated in the context of community. She relates this approach to contemporary debates about a committed politics similarly founded on the abandonment of certainty. Neither universalist nor relativist, the "aesthetics of uncertainty" provides a discourse on beauty that contemporary critics can engage with and offers a basis ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
Series
Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231140973
SKU
V9780231140973
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About Janet Wolff
Janet Wolff is professor emerita in the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures at the University of Manchester. She is the author of The Social Production of Art; Aesthetics and the Sociology of Art; Feminine Sentences: Essays on Women and Culture; Resident Alien: Feminist Cultural Criticism; and AngloModern: Painting and Modernity in Britain and the United States.
Reviews for The Aesthetics of Uncertainty
A salutary reminder of a fact often sensed but rarely articulated: the uncertain, the indirect, and the oblique are especially at home in our contemporary context of artistic creation and interpretation, and we would do well to investigate them for what they are in and of themselves, rather than seeing them merely as obstacles to be gotten beyond in pursuit ... Read more