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Uncontrollable beauty: towards a new aesthetics / edited by Bill Beckley with David Shapiro.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextSeries: Shapiro, David ; | Aesthetics todayPublication details: New York : Allworth Press : School of Visual Arts, c1998.Description: xxiv, 423 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 1880559900
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 111/.85 B397u 21
LOC classification:
  • BH201 .U53 1998
Contents:
Introduction: Generosity and the Black Swan / Bill Beckley -- Preface / David Shapiro -- Le Livre est sur la table / John Ashbery -- On Perfection, Coherence, and Unity of Form and Content / Meyer Schapiro -- Enter the Dragon: On the Vernacular of Beauty / Dave Hickey -- Beauty and Morality / Arthur C. Danto -- Beauty and the Contemporary Sublime / Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe -- Notes on Beauty / Peter Schjeldahl -- Contratemplates / Marjorie Welish -- A Sign of Beauty / Robert C. Morgan -- On Platonic Cosmetics / Jacqueline Lichtenstein -- Freud with Kant? The Enigma of Pleasure / Hubert Damisch -- Arousal by Image / David Freedberg -- Doctor Lawyer Indian Chief: "Primitivism" in Twentieth-Century Art at the Museum of Modern Art in 1984 / Thomas McEvilley -- On "Doctor Lawyer Indian Chief: 'Primitivism' in Twentieth-Century Art at the Museum of Modern Art in 1984" / William Rubin, Kirk Varnedoe and Thomas McEvilley --
On "Doctor Lawyer Indian Chief": Part II / William Rubin and Thomas McEvilley -- On the Claims and Critics of the "Primitivism" Show / Kirk Varnedoe -- The Practice of Beauty / James Hillman -- Ode to Willem de Kooning / Frank O'Hara -- Venus Unveiled: De Kooning's Melodrama of Vulgarity / Donald Kuspit -- The Mind and Body of the Dreamer / John Yau -- Mondrian's Secret / David Shapiro -- A Conversation between Julia Kristeva and Ariane Lopez-Huici / Julia Kristeva and Ariane Lopez-Huici -- Sunday Afternoons: A Conversation and a Remark on Beauty / Louise Bourgeois -- Sentences on the House and Other Sentences / John Hejduk -- Aunts / Max Fierst -- On Beauty / Kenneth Koch -- An Aesthetic of the Cool / Robert Farris Thompson -- The Violet Hour: An Essay on Beauty / Carter Ratcliff -- Beauty Is the Mystery of Life / Agnes Martin.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Generosity and the Black Swan / Bill Beckley -- Preface / David Shapiro -- Le Livre est sur la table / John Ashbery -- On Perfection, Coherence, and Unity of Form and Content / Meyer Schapiro -- Enter the Dragon: On the Vernacular of Beauty / Dave Hickey -- Beauty and Morality / Arthur C. Danto -- Beauty and the Contemporary Sublime / Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe -- Notes on Beauty / Peter Schjeldahl -- Contratemplates / Marjorie Welish -- A Sign of Beauty / Robert C. Morgan -- On Platonic Cosmetics / Jacqueline Lichtenstein -- Freud with Kant? The Enigma of Pleasure / Hubert Damisch -- Arousal by Image / David Freedberg -- Doctor Lawyer Indian Chief: "Primitivism" in Twentieth-Century Art at the Museum of Modern Art in 1984 / Thomas McEvilley -- On "Doctor Lawyer Indian Chief: 'Primitivism' in Twentieth-Century Art at the Museum of Modern Art in 1984" / William Rubin, Kirk Varnedoe and Thomas McEvilley --

On "Doctor Lawyer Indian Chief": Part II / William Rubin and Thomas McEvilley -- On the Claims and Critics of the "Primitivism" Show / Kirk Varnedoe -- The Practice of Beauty / James Hillman -- Ode to Willem de Kooning / Frank O'Hara -- Venus Unveiled: De Kooning's Melodrama of Vulgarity / Donald Kuspit -- The Mind and Body of the Dreamer / John Yau -- Mondrian's Secret / David Shapiro -- A Conversation between Julia Kristeva and Ariane Lopez-Huici / Julia Kristeva and Ariane Lopez-Huici -- Sunday Afternoons: A Conversation and a Remark on Beauty / Louise Bourgeois -- Sentences on the House and Other Sentences / John Hejduk -- Aunts / Max Fierst -- On Beauty / Kenneth Koch -- An Aesthetic of the Cool / Robert Farris Thompson -- The Violet Hour: An Essay on Beauty / Carter Ratcliff -- Beauty Is the Mystery of Life / Agnes Martin.

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