After the Beautiful (Paperback)

Robert B. Pippin

ISBN 10: 022632558X / ISBN 13: 9780226325583

Verlag: The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL, 2015

Beschreibung

Paperback. In his Berlin lectures on fine art, Hegel argued that art involves a unique form of aesthetic intelligibilitythe expression of a distinct collective self-understanding that develops through historical time. Hegels approach to art has been influential in a number of different contexts, but in a twist of historical irony Hegel would die just before the most radical artistic revolution in history: modernism. In After the Beautiful, Robert B. Pippin, looking at modernist paintings by artists such as Edouard Manet and Paul Cezanne through Hegels lens, does what Hegel never had the chance to do.While Hegel could never engage modernist painting, he did have an understanding of modernity, and in it, arthe famously assertedwas a thing of the past, no longer an important vehicle of self-understanding and no longer an indispensable expression of human meaning. Pippin offers a sophisticated exploration of Hegels position and its implications. He also shows that had Hegel known how the social institutions of his day would ultimately fail to achieve his own version of genuine equality, a mutuality of recognition, he would have had to explore a different, new role for art in modernity. After laying this groundwork, Pippin goes on to illuminate the dimensions of Hegels aesthetic approach in the path-breaking works of Manet, the grandfather of modernism, drawing on art historians T. J. Clark and Michael Fried to do so. He concludes with a look at Cezanne, the father of modernism, this time as his works illuminate the relationship between Hegel and the philosopher who would challenge Hegels account of both modernity and artMartin Heidegger.Elegantly inter-weaving philosophy and art history, After the Beautiful is a stunning reassessment of the modernist project. It gets at the core of the significance of modernism itself and what it means in general for art to have a history. Ultimately, it is a testament, via Hegel, to the distinctive philosophical achievements of modernist art in the unsettled, tumultuous era we have inherited. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliografische Details

• Titel: After the Beautiful (Paperback)
• Verlag: The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 022632558X
• ISBN-13: 9780226325583
• Einband: Paperback
• Zustand: new

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Inhaltsangabe

In his Berlin lectures on fine art, Hegel argued that art involves a unique form of aesthetic intelligibility—the expression of a distinct collective self-understanding that develops through historical time. Hegel’s approach to art has been influential in a number of different contexts, but in a twist of historical irony Hegel would die just before the most radical artistic revolution in history: modernism. In After the Beautiful, Robert B. Pippin, looking at modernist paintings by artists such as Édouard Manet and Paul Cézanne through Hegel’s lens, does what Hegel never had the chance to do.

While Hegel could never engage modernist painting, he did have an understanding of modernity, and in it, art—he famously asserted—was “a thing of the past,” no longer an important vehicle of self-understanding and no longer an indispensable expression of human meaning. Pippin offers a sophisticated exploration of Hegel’s position and its implications. He also shows that had Hegel known how the social institutions of his day would ultimately fail to achieve his own version of genuine equality, a mutuality of recognition, he would have had to explore a different, new role for art in modernity. After laying this groundwork, Pippin goes on to illuminate the dimensions of Hegel’s aesthetic approach in the path-breaking works of Manet, the “grandfather of modernism,” drawing on art historians T. J. Clark and Michael Fried to do so. He concludes with a look at Cézanne, the “father of modernism,” this time as his works illuminate the relationship between Hegel and the philosopher who would challenge Hegel’s account of both modernity and art—Martin Heidegger.

Elegantly inter-weaving philosophy and art history, After the Beautiful is a stunning reassessment of the modernist project. It gets at the core of the significance of modernism itself and what it means in general for art to have a history. Ultimately, it is a testament, via Hegel, to the distinctive philosophical achievements of modernist art in the unsettled, tumultuous era we have inherited.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Robert B. Pippin is the Evelyn Stefansson Nef Distinguished Service Professor in the John U. Nef Committee on Social Thought, the Department of Philosophy, and the College at the University of Chicago. He is the author of several books, includingNietzsche, Psychology, and First Philosophy and Interanimations, both also published by the University of Chicago Press.