TY  - BOOK
AU  - Andrew McNamara
PY  - 2021
CY  - Lausanne, Switzerland
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
TI  - An Apprehensive Aesthetic: The Legacy of Modernist Culture
T2  - The Legacy of Modernist Culture
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1105919
N2  - The book was awarded The Art Association of Australia and New Zealand Book Prize in 2010.  Art continues to bemuse and confuse many people today. Yet, its critical analyses are saturated with daunting analyses of contemporary art’s exhaustion, its predictability or its absorption into global commercial culture. In this book, the author seeks to clarify this apprehensive perception of art. He argues it is a consequence not only of confounding art-works, but also of the paradoxical impetus of a culture of modernity. By positively reassessing the perplexing or apprehensive features of cultural modernity as well as of aesthetic inquiry, this book redefines the ambitions of art in the wake of this legacy. In the process, it challenges many familiar approaches to art inquiry in order to offer a new understanding of the aesthetic, social and cultural aspirations of art in our time.
KW  - Literary Theory, Cultural Philosophy, Kunstgeschichte
LA  - English
ER  -