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- ISBN 9783631743706
- Weight: 314g
- Dimensions: 148 x 210mm
- Publication Date: 28 Dec 2018
- Publisher: Peter Lang AG
- Publication City/Country: CH
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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Past philosophical ideas about arts influence contemporary artistic practices. We still use traditional Idealist concepts, such as the autonomy of art or the subjective expression of the artist. At the same time, today’s art often attacks and abandons Idealist thinking.
The author of this book analyses this relation between the Idealist conception of the arts including literature and present-day reality. The aim is to create a link between past and present artistic practices and theoretical, philosophical thinking. The author also questions the Idealist notions of history and the relation between the theoretical, the aesthetic and the practical, and seeks new ways to deal with the relation between the past and the present.
Veli-Matti Saarinen researches literature and visual arts from a philosophical point of view and teaches at the University of Helsinki, the Aalto University, and the University of the Arts in Helsinki.
