TY  - BOOK
AU  - Foster,Hal
TI  - Brutal Aesthetics: Dubuffet, Bataille, Jorn, Paolozzi, Oldenburg 
T2  - The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts
SN  - 9780691253084
AV  - N6490 
U1  - 709.04 
PY  - 2023///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - Aesthetics, Modern
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Art, Modern
KW  - Civilization in art
KW  - ART / History / Contemporary (1945-)
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Abstract expressionism
KW  - Aesthetic Theory
KW  - Aesthetics
KW  - Alterity
KW  - Ambiguity
KW  - Anton Ehrenzweig
KW  - Asger Jorn
KW  - Avant-Garde and Kitsch
KW  - Banality (sculpture series)
KW  - Book
KW  - Cave painting
KW  - Claes Oldenburg
KW  - Classicism
KW  - Clement Greenberg
KW  - Cubism
KW  - Dada
KW  - Death drive
KW  - Disenchantment
KW  - Eduardo Paolozzi
KW  - Eroticism
KW  - Fetishism
KW  - Francis Bacon (artist)
KW  - Georges Bataille
KW  - Giambattista della Porta
KW  - Giorgio Agamben
KW  - Giuseppe Arcimboldo
KW  - Hubert Damisch
KW  - Jacques Derrida
KW  - Jacques Lacan
KW  - Jean Dubuffet
KW  - Jeff Koons
KW  - John McHale (artist)
KW  - Kitsch
KW  - Lascaux
KW  - Lawrence Alloway
KW  - Life Against Death
KW  - Literature
KW  - Lumpenproletariat
KW  - Madness and Civilization
KW  - Manfredo Tafuri
KW  - Marcel Duchamp
KW  - Metonymy
KW  - Meyer Schapiro
KW  - Modernism
KW  - Modernity
KW  - Narcissism
KW  - Nazism
KW  - Paul Klee
KW  - Piero Manzoni
KW  - Pop art
KW  - Postmodernism
KW  - Primal scene
KW  - Primitivism
KW  - Princeton University Press
KW  - Psychoanalysis
KW  - Raoul Hausmann
KW  - Richard Hamilton (artist)
KW  - Roland Barthes
KW  - Sculpture
KW  - Sexual Desire (book)
KW  - Sigfried Giedion
KW  - Subjectivity
KW  - Surrealism
KW  - Symptom
KW  - The Mechanical Bride
KW  - Totem and Taboo
KW  - Tristan Tzara
KW  - Walter Benjamin
KW  - Work of art
KW  - Writing
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Introduction: Positive Barbarism --; 1 Jean Dubuffet and His Brutes --; 2 Georges Bataille and His Caves --; 3 Asger Jorn and His Creatures --; 4 Eduardo Paolozzi and His Hollow Gods --; 5 Claes Oldenburg and His Ray Guns --; Acknowledgments --; Notes --; Index --; Photography and Copyright Credits; restricted access
N2  - How artists created an aesthetic of “positive barbarism” in a world devastated by World War II, the Holocaust, and the atomic bombIn 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 Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DCPlease note: All images in this ebook are presented in black and white and have been reduced in size
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