Aisthesis

Aisthesis:Scenes from the Aesthetic Regime of Art

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Rancière’s magnum opus on the aesthetic

The definitive statement on aesthetics and the history of modernism from one of France's most renowned philosophers. Composed of a series of scenes that defined modernism, Aisthesis takes its reader from Dresden in 1764 to New York in 1941. Along the way, we view the Belvedere Torso with Winckelmann, accompany Hegel to the museum and Mallarmé to the Folies-Bergère, attend a lecture by Emerson, visit exhibitions in Paris and New York, factories in Berlin, and film sets in Moscow and Hollywood. Rancière uses these sites and events to ask what becomes art and what comes from it. This incisive study provides a history of artistic modernity far removed from the conventional postures of modernism.

Reviews

  • Jacques Rancière’s Aisthesis transforms the field of aesthetic philosophy.

    Libération
  • French philosopher Jacques Rancière is a refreshing read for anyone concerned with what art has to do with politics and society.

    Art Review
  • In the face of impossible attempts to proceed with progressive ideas within the terms of postmodernist discourse, Rancière shows a way out of the malaise.

    Liam Gillick