Aesthetic Thinking: Essays on Intention, Painting, Action, and Ideology (Historical Materialism Book Series)

Orton, Fred

Brill（2021/12発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 192 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9789004503298
• DDC分類 335.14

Full Description

Fred Orton's teaching and writing has always combined theoretical and formal - which is to say structural - analysis with historical research and reflection. This collection of essays - rewritten studies of Paul Cézanne, Jasper Johns, the American cultural critic Harold Rosenberg and a new essay on Marx and Engels' notion of ideology - brings together some of his most decisive contributions to thinking about fine art practice and rethinking the theory and methods of the social history of art. More than an anthology, it offers a vivid demonstration of how theory can work to generate new interpretations and unsettle old ones.

Contents

Acknowledgements

'Present, the Scene of ... Selves, the Occasion of ... Ruses': Fred Orton's Art History

 Steve Edwards

Publications by Fred Orton

1 Beginning ... with Intention

2 Painting Out of Time

 Symbol and Allegory

 Modernist Painting

 On the Motif

 Sensations

 A Dabbing Sensation

 As If. As If.

 Paul de Man, 'The Rhetoric of Temporality'

 Slack Links and Gaps

 Allegory

3 Action, Revolution & Painting (Resumed)

 I

 II

 III

 IV

4 Ideology: Reading Paul de Man Reading Marx and Engels

 'The Dead-End of Formalist Criticism' (1956)

 'Georg Lukács's "Theory of the Novel" ' (1966)

 'The Contemporary Criticism of Romanticism' (1967)

 'Roland Barthes and the Limits of Structuralism' (1972)

 'Metaphor (Second Discourse)' (1973)

 'The Resistance to Theory' (1982)

 Excursus: Aberration

 'The Resistance to Theory' (Continued)

 Coda: Aesthetics, Rhetoric, Ideology

 For the End ...

Bibliography

Index