After the Beautiful
Subtitle: Hegel and the Philosophy of Pictorial Modernism
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: Dec 23, 2013
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9780226079493
Description: 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.
Notes: Source title: After the Beautiful: Hegel and the Philosophy of Pictorial Modernism