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aesthetics formalism
art and life
art and society
Art theory
Author_Peter Burger
avant garde
avant-gardist
barbarism
Benjamin
bourgeois culture
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Diderot
enlightenment
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Foucault
modern art
modernism in art
postmodern art
postmodernism
sade
weber
Product details
- ISBN 9780745606224
- Weight: 454g
- Dimensions: 164 x 239mm
- Publication Date: 25 Jun 1992
- Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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In this lucid and stimulating new book, Peter Burger, one of the foremost literary critics in Germany today, addresses the relationship between art and society, from the emergence of bourgeois culture in the eighteenth century to the decline of modernism in the twentieth century. In analysing this relationship, Burger draws on a wide range of sociological and literary-critical sources - Weber, Benjamin, Foucault, Diderot and Sade among others. He argues that in questioning the formal relationship between art and life which had dominated the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the avant gardist movements of the early twentieth century brought about the crisis of postmodernism.
Burger charts the establishment of literary and artistic institutions since the Enlightenment and their apparent autonomy of the prevailing political systems. However, he argues that the discovery of the obverse of Enlightenment, namely barbarism, revealed the interdependence of art and society and set the scene for the avant-gardist protest against aesthetics formalism.
Burger charts the establishment of literary and artistic institutions since the Enlightenment and their apparent autonomy of the prevailing political systems. However, he argues that the discovery of the obverse of Enlightenment, namely barbarism, revealed the interdependence of art and society and set the scene for the avant-gardist protest against aesthetics formalism.
PETER BURGER is one of the foremost literary critics in Germany and is well-known in the English speaking world for his classic study, The Theory of the Avant-Garde.
