Art and its shadow
By: Mario Perniola ; translated by Massimo Verdicchio ; foreword by Hugh J. Silverman.
Publisher: Continuum
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 78
Subjects: Art and philosophy.; Art, Modern -- 20th century -- Philosophy.
Description: Art and its Shadow is an extraordinary analysis of the state and meaning of contemporary art and film. Ranging across the work of Andy Warhol, cyberpunk, Wim Wenders, Derek Jarman, thinking on difference and the possibility of a philosophical cinema, Mario Perniola examines the latest and most disturbing tendencies in art.Perniola explores how art - notably in posthumanism, psychotic realism and extreme art - continues to survive despite the hype of the art market and the world of mass communication and reproduction. He argues that the meaning of art in the modern world no longer lies in aesthetic value (above the art work), nor in popular taste (below the art work), but beside the artwork, in the shadow created by both the art establishment and the world of mass communications. In this shadow is what is left out of account by both market and mass media: the difficulty of art, a knowledge that can never be fully revealed, and a new aesthetic future
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [71]-75) and index.