The power and politics of the aesthetic in American culture
By: edited by Klaus Benesch, Ulla Haselstein
Series: Publikationen der Bayerischen Amerika-Akademie -- Bd. 7 = -- Publications of the Bavarian American Academy -- v. 7; Publikationen der Bayerischen Amerika-Akademie -- Bd. 7.
Publisher: Winter
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Heidelberg
Language: eng
Number of pages: 127
ISBN-13: 9783825353360
Copyright date: 2007
Subjects: American Aesthetics; Congresses; Art; Ästhetik; Kultur
Notes: Essays originating at the 2005 annual conference of the Bavarian American Academy in Munich.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The power and politics of the aesthetic in American culture  -- Ulla Haselstein -- and -- Klaus Benesch; title: Terror, aesthetics, and humanities in the public sphere  -- Emory Elliott; title: The search for an 'artless art': aesthetics and American culture  -- Winfried Fluck; title: Eternity : a frill on the dress  -- Barbara Vinken; title: The politics of art and the power of the aesthetic  -- Juliane Rebentisch; title: Notes on failure  -- Judith Halberstam; title: Gestural critique of judgment  -- Fred Moten; title: Art in the age of catastrophe : photographing September 11 -- Miles Orvell.