Uncontrollable beauty: towards a new aesthetics /
Beckley, Bill
Uncontrollable beauty: towards a new aesthetics / edited by Bill Beckley with David Shapiro. - New York : Allworth Press : School of Visual Arts, c1998. - xxiv, 423 p. ; 24 cm. - Aesthetics today . - Shapiro, David . - Aesthetics today. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Generosity and the Black Swan / Preface / Le Livre est sur la table / On Perfection, Coherence, and Unity of Form and Content / Enter the Dragon: On the Vernacular of Beauty / Beauty and Morality / Beauty and the Contemporary Sublime / Notes on Beauty / Contratemplates / A Sign of Beauty / On Platonic Cosmetics / Freud with Kant? The Enigma of Pleasure / Arousal by Image / Doctor Lawyer Indian Chief: "Primitivism" in Twentieth-Century Art at the Museum of Modern Art in 1984 / On "Doctor Lawyer Indian Chief: 'Primitivism' in Twentieth-Century Art at the Museum of Modern Art in 1984" / Bill Beckley -- David Shapiro -- John Ashbery -- Meyer Schapiro -- Dave Hickey -- Arthur C. Danto -- Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe -- Peter Schjeldahl -- Marjorie Welish -- Robert C. Morgan -- Jacqueline Lichtenstein -- Hubert Damisch -- David Freedberg -- Thomas McEvilley -- William Rubin, Kirk Varnedoe and Thomas McEvilley -- On "Doctor Lawyer Indian Chief": Part II / On the Claims and Critics of the "Primitivism" Show / The Practice of Beauty / Ode to Willem de Kooning / Venus Unveiled: De Kooning's Melodrama of Vulgarity / The Mind and Body of the Dreamer / Mondrian's Secret / A Conversation between Julia Kristeva and Ariane Lopez-Huici / Sunday Afternoons: A Conversation and a Remark on Beauty / Sentences on the House and Other Sentences / Aunts / On Beauty / An Aesthetic of the Cool / The Violet Hour: An Essay on Beauty / Beauty Is the Mystery of Life / William Rubin and Thomas McEvilley -- Kirk Varnedoe -- James Hillman -- Frank O'Hara -- Donald Kuspit -- John Yau -- David Shapiro -- Julia Kristeva and Ariane Lopez-Huici -- Louise Bourgeois -- John Hejduk -- Max Fierst -- Kenneth Koch -- Robert Farris Thompson -- Carter Ratcliff -- Agnes Martin.
1880559900
98070100
Aesthetics, Modern--20th century.
Art criticism.
BH201 / .U53 1998
111/.85 / B397u
Uncontrollable beauty: towards a new aesthetics / edited by Bill Beckley with David Shapiro. - New York : Allworth Press : School of Visual Arts, c1998. - xxiv, 423 p. ; 24 cm. - Aesthetics today . - Shapiro, David . - Aesthetics today. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Generosity and the Black Swan / Preface / Le Livre est sur la table / On Perfection, Coherence, and Unity of Form and Content / Enter the Dragon: On the Vernacular of Beauty / Beauty and Morality / Beauty and the Contemporary Sublime / Notes on Beauty / Contratemplates / A Sign of Beauty / On Platonic Cosmetics / Freud with Kant? The Enigma of Pleasure / Arousal by Image / Doctor Lawyer Indian Chief: "Primitivism" in Twentieth-Century Art at the Museum of Modern Art in 1984 / On "Doctor Lawyer Indian Chief: 'Primitivism' in Twentieth-Century Art at the Museum of Modern Art in 1984" / Bill Beckley -- David Shapiro -- John Ashbery -- Meyer Schapiro -- Dave Hickey -- Arthur C. Danto -- Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe -- Peter Schjeldahl -- Marjorie Welish -- Robert C. Morgan -- Jacqueline Lichtenstein -- Hubert Damisch -- David Freedberg -- Thomas McEvilley -- William Rubin, Kirk Varnedoe and Thomas McEvilley -- On "Doctor Lawyer Indian Chief": Part II / On the Claims and Critics of the "Primitivism" Show / The Practice of Beauty / Ode to Willem de Kooning / Venus Unveiled: De Kooning's Melodrama of Vulgarity / The Mind and Body of the Dreamer / Mondrian's Secret / A Conversation between Julia Kristeva and Ariane Lopez-Huici / Sunday Afternoons: A Conversation and a Remark on Beauty / Sentences on the House and Other Sentences / Aunts / On Beauty / An Aesthetic of the Cool / The Violet Hour: An Essay on Beauty / Beauty Is the Mystery of Life / William Rubin and Thomas McEvilley -- Kirk Varnedoe -- James Hillman -- Frank O'Hara -- Donald Kuspit -- John Yau -- David Shapiro -- Julia Kristeva and Ariane Lopez-Huici -- Louise Bourgeois -- John Hejduk -- Max Fierst -- Kenneth Koch -- Robert Farris Thompson -- Carter Ratcliff -- Agnes Martin.
1880559900
98070100
Aesthetics, Modern--20th century.
Art criticism.
BH201 / .U53 1998
111/.85 / B397u