Aesthetics and The Work of Art Adorno, Kafka, Richter

by de Bolla, Peter; Uhlig, Stefan H.

• ISBN13: 9780230549197
• ISBN10: 0230549195
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-12-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

In this book, ten leading commentators explore the interfaces between art and aesthetics in dialogue with a philosophical text (Theodor Adorno's draft introduction to Aesthetic Theory ), a piece of literary writing (Franz Kafka's A Report to an Academy ), and a major contemporary painting (Gerhard Richter's Betty , 1988).

Author Biography

PETER DE BOLLA teaches at the University of Cambridge, UK, and is the author of a number of books, among them The Discourse of the Sublime: Readings in History, Aesthetics and the Subject (1989), Art Matters (2001), The Education of the Eye: Painting, Landscape and Architecture in Eighteenth Century Britain (2003), and The Fourth of July and the Founding of America (2007).
 
STEFAN H. UHLIG is Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Cambridge, UK. He has published on the idea of world literature, eighteenth-century conversation, and the value of ordinary life in Gray and Wordsworth. He is writing a study of the conceptual resources of literary studies, and is co-editor of Wordsworths Poetic Theory (forthcoming, 2009).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements and Note on Abbreviations	p. vii
Notes on Contributors	p. viii
Introduction	p. 1
Draft Introduction to Aesthetic Theory
What Does Art Know?	p. 57
Aesthetics and the Fully Emancipated Subject: Cultures, Histories and the Fictive Imagination	p. 71
Beyond the Pleasure Principle: Politics in Adorno's Aesthetic Theory	p. 92
A Report to an Academy
The Ape Speaks	p. 113
Kafka's Exit: Exile, Exodus and Messianism	p. 126
Kafka's 'A Report to an Academy' with Adorno	p. 147
Betty (1988)
The Matter of Memory: On Semblance and History in Richter and Adorno	p. 169
Faces, Traces: Adorno, Kafka, Richter	p. 187
Ecce Pinctura: A Note on Betty's Mastered Irony	p. 214
Facing Betty's Turn	p. 222
Index	p. 241
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