[PDF] Art For Arts Sake Literary Life eBook

Author : Gene H. Bell-Villada
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 29,6 MB
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780803261433

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Art for Art's Sake and Literary Life is a dynamic history of literary aestheticism from the eighteenth century to academic deconstruction in our own time. Gene H. Bell-Villada examines an enormous range of writings by critics, philosophers, and writers from Europe, Latin America, and the United States. Uniting all is his conviction that "there are concrete social, economic, political, and cultural reasons for the emergence, growth, diffusion, and triumph of l'art pour l'art over the past two centuries." Bell-Villada begins by considering how such thinkers as Shaftesbury, Kant, and Schiller described beauty as a phenomenon to be weighed not in isolation from other aspects of our existence but as part of our general development as human beings. He recounts how the original vision of Kant and Schiller was simplified and debased within new cultural, political, and economic contexts, leading to the "aesthetic separatism" promoted by lyric poets in France. Bell-Villada then examines how the ideology of Art for Art's Sake took on new forms in Europe and the Americas, culminating in present-day versions associated with the academicization (and ever greater marginalization) of literature. Artfully combining an exceptional amount of learning with a sharp polemical focus, Art for Art's Sake and Literary Life will appeal to a wide range of scholars and general readers for whom literature, aesthetics, and the relations of culture and society are vitally important matters.

Author : Scott O'Connor
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 12,20 MB
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1640093745

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A literary thriller about an infamous desert art installation, the cult it inspired, and the search for a missing young woman that is “cinematic . . . readers will be compelled to start again at page one to discover how O’Connor pieces together his suspenseful, incredibly well–written narrative” (Library Journal, starred review). Los Angeles, the late 1970s: Jess Shepard is an installation artist who creates environments that focus on light and space, often leading to intense sensory experiences for visitors to her work. A run of critically lauded projects peaks with Zero Zone, an installation at the once upon a time site of nuclear bomb testing in the New Mexico desert. But when a small group of travelers experience what they perceive as a religious awakening inside Zero Zone, they barricade themselves in the installation until authorities are forced to intervene. That violent showdown becomes a media sensation, and its aftermath follows Jess wherever she goes. Devastated by the attack and the distortion of her art, Jess retreats from the world. Unable to work, Jess unravels mentally and emotionally, plagued by a nagging uncertainty as to her culpability for what happened. Three years later, a survivor from Zero Zone comes looking for Jess, who must move past her self imposed isolation to face down her fears and recover her art and possibly her life from a violent cult intent of making it their own.

Author : Daniel E. Sutherland
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 40,51 MB
Release : 2014-03-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0300203462

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A biography of James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) that dispels the popular notion of Whistler as merely a combative, eccentric and unrelenting publicity seeker, a man as renowned for his public feuds with Oscar Wilde and John Ruskin as for the iconic portrait of his mother.

Author : Kelly Comfort
Publisher : Springer
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 19,35 MB
Release : 2008-01-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0230583490

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Art for art's sake addresses the relationship between art and life. Although it has long been argued that aestheticism aims to de-humanize art, this volume seeks to consider the counterclaim that such de-humanization can also lead to re-humanization and to a deepened relationship between the aesthetic sphere and the world at large.

Author : Charles Henry Caffin
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 49,42 MB
Release : 2017-12-27
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9780484913843

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Excerpt from Art for Life's Sake: An Application of the Principles, of Art to the Ideals and Conduct of Individual, and Collective Life For the core of our subject is Life and Art; Life which we cannot evade; Art which we may reject at our peril and cost; but Art for Life's sake, not only for Art's sake; not for selfish indulgence, but for the widest possible benefit to all; and not any one of the many arts; but all of them as embraced in the supreme Art the Art of Living. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Charles Henry Caffin
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 50,37 MB
Release : 2015-06-15
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781330091821

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Excerpt from Art for Life's Sake: An Application of the Principles, of Art to the Ideals and Conduct of Individual, and Collective Life This book is a product of some fifteen years experience as a lecturer on art, especially the art of painting. John Addington Symonds remarked more than a quarter of a century ago, "Painting has lost its hold upon the center of our intellectual activity. It can no longer give form to the ideas that rule the modem world." Since these words were written the ideas have continued to deepen and to expand until they consciously embrace the making-over of society, economically, intellectually, and spiritually, in order to realize more fully the possibilities of democracy. In the evolution of this New Democracy the arts will continue to play their necessary and beautiful part; especially the arts of music and of poetry and the literature and drama of life. But in the presence of forces so varied and mighty as are moving the thought and action of today, no one of the arts nor all of them can ever again supply a form, commensurate with our ideals. They will continue to furnish inspiration and example; but the form, big enough to express the gathering ideal of Human Betterment, can be no less big than Life itself. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Howard Scharber
Publisher :
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 42,65 MB
Release : 2021-07-29
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This book is a brilliantly designed puzzle, intended to tease conventional minds with its exploration of the myriad interrelationships between art, life, and consequence. From its provocative Preface, challenging the reader to believe in 'art for art's sake, to its sensational conclusion, the story self-consciously experiments with the notion of sin as an element of design. The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim. The critic is he who can translate into another manner or a new material his impression of beautiful things.

Author : Winner Ellen
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 42,82 MB
Release : 2013-06-14
Category :
ISBN : 9264180788

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Arts education is often said to be a means of developing critical and creative thinking. This report examines the state of empirical knowledge about the impact of arts education on these kinds of outcomes.