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Art, Modern --- Art, Modern --- Art movements --- History

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L'art de ce début de XXIe siècle, infiniment inventif, échappe à toute qualification. Sans qualité, il multiplie les configurations à l'infini, déroute les attentes, infiltre la vie quotidienne, et, comme l'exprime Claude Amey, ce qui est extrême, ce n'est pas la ligne droite mais le nombre des agencements qui entendent partager "le sensible". Tous les prophètes du déclin de l'art, les Cassandre prédisant sa mort programmée, de G. W. F. Hegel, qui ne parlait en fait que de "dissolution", à Arthur Danto, se sont donc fourvoyés. Le capitalisme libéral a réussi à inventer la "fin de la fin de l'art". Il est parvenu à créer un art à son image, un art affranchi des injonctions et des illusions modernistes, un art sans modèles, sans valeurs, sans idéaux, sans perspective humaniste, bref, un art "conforme", témoin désabusé, voire cynique, véritable sismographe d'un monde agité et déboussolé, lui aussi soumis à des reconfigurations permanentes. Pas de confusion toutefois : l'art de la non-finitude ne renonce pas au beau, ni au sublime, ni au laid. Bien au contraire, il absorbe le tout, libéré de tout idéalisme, et notamment de l'illusion selon laquelle il pourrait réenchanter le monde. C'est peut-être ce qu'exprime la 11e biennale de Lyon intitulée "Une terrible beauté est née" d'après un vers d'un poème de Yeats. Une beauté terrible, que l'on pourrait dire aussi effrayante, abominable, affreuse, apocalyptique, atroce, catastrophique, dantesque, dramatique, effroyable, épouvantable, extraordinaire, fantastique, farouche, féroce, formidable, foudroyante, horrible, insoutenable, intenable, intense, monstrueuse, prodigieuse, puissante, redoutable, sombre, terrorisante, tragique, violente, etc. Sans qualité, l'art actuel supporte tous les qualificatifs.

Art, Modern --- Aesthetics

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In art history the term "eclecticism" is often used to criticise the unoriginal combination of several models which may not always fit together. The essays in this collection make it clear that this was not always the case and that even today there exist well-founded alternative judgements. The sixteen contributions from an international conference held at the University of Bonn explain eclecticism as a controversial and evaluative term, re-examine it as a positive concept in art history, and shed light on various eclectic processes through the centuries. As well as the traditional debates on this theme in architecture, the book emphasises for the first time its role in the visual arts. Eclecticism as a historical phenomenon and different eclectic practices in art are thus brought out of the shadows of a critcal debate which merits new evaluation.

Art, Modern --- Art, Modern --- Eclecticism in art --- History.

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Covering the last decade of Richard Woods's career, this book profiles a multitude of representative case studies. These studies provide detailed insights into the production processes associated with the entire range of the artist's output.

Art, Modern --- Art --- Woods, Richard,

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"Updated and reorganized to offer the best collection of state-of-the-art readings on the role of critical theory in contemporary art, this second edition of Theory in Contemporary Art since 1985 brings together scholarly essays, artists' statements, and art reproductions to capture the vibrancy and dissonance that define today's art scene. Incorporates new and updated topics that have become central to art theory and practice over the past decade New and updated chapters cover such topics as: international biennials, historicizing of the term "contemporary art", aesthetics, art and politics, feminism and pornography, ecology and art, the Middle East and conflict studies, Eastern European art and politics, gender and war, and technology Features a thematic reconfiguration of sections and new introductions to make readings user-friendly Extensively illustrated throughout with an expanded color-plate section New contributions to this edition include those by Alexander Alberro, Claire Bishop, T.J. Demos, Anthony Downey, Liam Gillick, Marina Gr?ini?, Mary Kelly, Chantal Mouffe, Beatriz Preciado, Jacques Ranciere, Blake Stimson, and Chin-Tao Wu. "--

ART / History / General. --- Art, Modern --- Philosophy