Art In Its Time: Theories and Practices of Modern Aesthetics - Softcover

Mattick, Paul

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415239214 ISBN 13: 9780415239219

Publisher: Routledge, 2003

Synopsis

Art In Its Time takes a close look at the way in which art has become integral to the everyday 'ordinary' life of modern society. It explores the prevalent notion of art as transcending its historical moment, and argues that art cannot be separated from the everyday as it often provides material to represent social struggles and class, to explore sexuality, and to think about modern industry and our economic relationships.

About this title

About the Author:

Paul Mattick, Jr. is Professor of Philosophy at Adelphi University. He is the author of Social Knowledge: An Essay on the Nature and Limits of Social Sciences (1986) and editor of Eighteenth-Century Aesthetics and the Reconstruction of Art (1993).

Review:

""Subtly argued and gracefully erudite, Paul Mattick's Art In Its Time: Theories and Practices of Modern Aesthetics is neither a work of art criticism nor of aesthetics, but is rather an intellectual and social history of concepts central to the emergence of modern art and aesthetics. Art In Its Time is at its most potent and even controversial when Mattick directs his razor-sharp critical attention on the aesthetic theories and fantasies of modernist and post-modernist art...[His] arguments are nuanced in detail, and his observations are invariably illuminating..""
-Daniel Baird, THE BROOKLYN RAIL

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0415239214
• ISBN 13: 9780415239219
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 200