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How artists created an aesthetic of "positive barbarism" in a world devastated by World War II, the Holocaust, and the atomic bomb
In Brutal Aesthetics, leading art historian Hal Foster explores how postwar artists and writers searched for a new foundation of culture after the massive devastation of World War II, the Holocaust, and the atomic bomb. Inspired by the notion that modernist art can teach us how to survive a civilization become barbaric, Foster examines the various ways that key figures from the early 1940s to the early 1960s sought to develop a "brutal aesthetics" adequate to the destruction around them.
With a focus on the philosopher Georges Bataille, the painters Jean Dubuffet and Asger Jorn, and the sculptors Eduardo Paolozzi and Claes Oldenburg, Foster investigates a manifold move to strip art down, or to reveal it as already bare, in order to begin again. What does Bataille seek in the prehistoric cave paintings of Lascaux? How does Dubuffet imagine an art brut, an art unscathed by culture? Why does Jorn populate his paintings with "human animals"? What does Paolozzi see in his monstrous figures assembled from industrial debris? And why does Oldenburg remake everyday products from urban scrap?
A study of artistic practices made desperate by a world in crisis, Brutal Aesthetics is an intriguing account of a difficult era in twentieth-century culture, one that has important implications for our own.
Published in association with the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.
EdituraPrinceton University Press
Dimensiuni201 x 270 x 26
Data Publicarii17/11/2020
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Numar pagini296
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Cum artistii au creat o estetica a „barbariei pozitive” intr-o lume devastata de Al Doilea Razboi Mondial, Holocaust si bomba atomica In Brutal Aesthetics, istoricul de arta de varf Hal Foster exploreaza modul in care artistii si scriitorii de dupa razboi au cautat o noua fundatie a culturii dupa masiva devastarea celui de-al doilea razboi mondial, a Holocaustului si a bombei atomice.