This book comprises a timely and controversial assertion of beauty as vital to the energy of contemporary art. As such it surveys work by an international group of artists who share an intense and highly individualistic focus on the processes of making, authorship and aesthetic poise. An essay by Michael Bracewell shares with its subjects the return of aesthetics to the science of feelings; to the individual as opposed to 'identity'; and to a sensibility in visual art that is literary, flees the stereotype and rejects sociopolitical verbiage. It is a concept of beauty in some recent art that is less about representation than it is about memoir, fictional devices, cultural connoisseurship as praxis and the profundity of human relationships.
| ISBN: | 9781909932821 |
| Publication date: | 24th January 2025 |
| Author: | Michael Bracewell, Charles Asprey |
| Publisher: | Ridinghouse |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 160 pages |
| Series: | Ridinghouse |
| Genres: |
Theory of art |
This book comprises a timely and controversial assertion of beauty as vital to the energy of contemporary art. As such it surveys work by an international group of artists who share an intense and highly individualistic focus on the processes of making, authorship and aesthetic poise. An essay by Michael Bracewell shares with its subjects the return of aesthetics to the science of feelings; to the individual as opposed to 'identity'; and to a sensibility in visual art that is literary, flees the stereotype and rejects sociopolitical verbiage. It is a concept of beauty in some recent art that is less about representation than it is about memoir, fictional devices, cultural connoisseurship as praxis and the profundity of human relationships.
Beauty features in the following genres: Theory of art
Beauty is available in Hardback
Beauty was written by Michael Bracewell, Charles Asprey and published by Ridinghouse
Beauty has 160 pages
Yes it is part of Ridinghouse series
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