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DOORMAN, MAARTEN - ART IN PROGRESS - A philosophical response to the end of the AVANT-GARDE.
Amsterdam, Amsterdam University Press, 2003. 1st edition. Paperback, 24cmx16cm, Good condition /Cover in color, Front cover illustration: Richard Paul Lohse: 'Four systematic groups of paint with a reduced centre' (1968). Cover design: Sabine Mannel. Translated from the Dutch by Sherry Marx. Art is supposed to be of our time or rather of the future. This perspective has dominated art and art criticism for more than a century. The author of this challenging and erudite study traces how the idea of progress in art came into being and examines the widespread rhetorical impact of concepts of progress. After the end of the avant-garde, the idea of progress in art collapsed and philosophers like Arthur Danto soon began proclaiming the end of art. Doorman investigates the crippling effects of postmodernism on art and proposes a new notion of progress with which to understand contemporary art. Art over time can be seen as a process of accumulation: works of art comment on each other, enriching each other's meanings. These complex interrelationships lead to progress in the sensibility of the observer and the significance of the art works themselves. Contents: I). Perspectives on progress: a history. II). From the ancients to the moderns: a door to the future. III). From Romanticism to the Avant-Garde. IV). On making revolution. V). Innovation in painting and architecture: de Stijl. VI). The end of art. VII). A new approach to an old concept. With notes, bibliography and index of names. 181 pag.
EUR 29.00 [Appr.: US$ 31.38 | £UK 24.75 | JP¥ 4922] Booknumber: 030027
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EUR 29.00 [Appr.: US$ 31.38 | £UK 24.75 | JP¥ 4922] Booknumber: 030027
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