Art In Its Time

Theories and Practices of Modern Aesthetics

Paul Mattick

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Routledge
06 March 2003

Theory of art; Philosophy: aesthetics

Art In Its Time takes a close look at the way in which art has become integral to the everyday 'ordinary' life of modern society. It explores the prevalent notion of art as transcending its historical moment, and argues that art cannot be separated from the everyday as it often provides material to represent social struggles and class, to explore sexuality, and to think about modern industry and our economic relationships. The way we view art is a phenomenon of modern society and its social order. It is only in the 18th century that we see the exaltation of art through the rise of museums, today sites of mass pilgrimage and focal to modern activity. On the one hand, this confirms the art historian's notion that art is an autonomous narrative and that its value is independent of practical interest; yet, on the other hand, we know that art comes out fo the everyday life and it can attain higher value by its success in entering the stream of 'art', and by its exchange-value, the expression in money of the art-lover's desire. Paul Mattick explores many of the ideas that surrround art today including Modernism, the sublime and beautiful, the relationship between art and money and particularly philanthropy in the US, the role of photography in producing the aesthetic 'ara' and the limits of political art. Art In Its Time is a valuable contribution to the ongoing debate on the role of art particularly as modern art continues to depart from traditional notions of what art is. Providing a much needed social history of art, Art and Its Time will be of interest to all students of art theory and art history.

By: Paul Mattick
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 21mm
Weight: 498g
ISBN: 9780415239202
ISBN 10: 0415239206
Pages: 200
Publication Date: 06 March 2003
Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , College/higher education , ELT Advanced , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

1. Introduction 2. Some Masks of Modernism 3. Beautiful and Sublime: 'Gender Totemism' in the Constitution of Art 4. Art and Money 5. Pork and Porcelain 6. The Rationalization of Art 7. Mechanical Reproduction in the Age of Art 8. Aesthetics and Anti-aesthetics 9. The Andy Warhol of Philosophy and the Philosophy of Andy Warhol 10. The Avant-Garde in Fashion 11. Class Taste

Paul Mattick

Reviews for Art In Its Time: Theories and Practices of Modern Aesthetics

Subtly argued and gracefully erudite, Paul Mattick's Art In Its Time: Theories and Practices of Modern Aesthetics is neither a work of art criticism nor of aesthetics, but is rather an intellectual and social history of concepts central to the emergence of modern art and aesthetics. Art In Its Time is at its most potent and even controversial when Mattick directs his razor-sharp critical attention on the aesthetic theories and fantasies of modernist and post-modernist art...[His] arguments are nuanced in detail, and his observations are invariably illuminating.. -Daniel Baird, THE BROOKLYN RAIL