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Art and its shadow / Mario Perniola ; translated by Massimo Verdicchio ; foreword by Hugh J. Silverman.

By: Perniola, Mario.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: London ; New York : Continuum, 2004Description: xx, 78 p. ; 22 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 082646243X; 9780826462435; 9780826462428.Uniform titles: Arte e la sua ombra. English Subject(s): Art and philosophy | Art, Modern -- 20th century -- Philosophy | Philosophy | Cultural studies | Art and DesignDDC classification: 709.04 PER
Contents:
Idiocy and splendour in current art -- Feeling the difference -- Warhol and the postmodern -- Towards a philosophical cinema -- The third system of art -- Art and remainder.
Summary: 'Art and its Shadow' is an extraordinary analysis of the state and meaning of contemporary art and film. Ranging across the work of Andy Warhol, cyberpunk, Wim Wenders, Derek and Jarman, thinking on difference and the possibility of a philosophical cinema, Perniola examines the most disturbing tendencies in art.
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Art and its Shadow is an extraordinary analysis of the state and meaning of contemporary art and film. Ranging across the work of Andy Warhol, cyberpunk, Wim Wenders, Derek Jarman, thinking on difference and the possibility of a philosophical cinema, Mario Perniola examines the latest and most disturbing tendencies in art.Perniola explores how art - notably in posthumanism, psychotic realism and extreme art - continues to survive despite the hype of the art market and the world of mass communication and reproduction. He argues that the meaning of art in the modern world no longer lies in aesthetic value (above the art work), nor in popular taste (below the art work), but beside the artwork, in the shadow created by both the art establishment and the world of mass communications. In this shadow is what is left out of account by both market and mass media: the difficulty of art, a knowledge that can never be fully revealed, and a new aesthetic future.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [71]-75) and index.

Idiocy and splendour in current art -- Feeling the difference -- Warhol and the postmodern -- Towards a philosophical cinema -- The third system of art -- Art and remainder.

'Art and its Shadow' is an extraordinary analysis of the state and meaning of contemporary art and film. Ranging across the work of Andy Warhol, cyberpunk, Wim Wenders, Derek and Jarman, thinking on difference and the possibility of a philosophical cinema, Perniola examines the most disturbing tendencies in art.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Foreword: Perniola's Postmodern Shadows (p. vii)
  • Introduction (p. xv)
  • 1 Idiocy and Splendour in Current Art (p. 3)
  • 1 The 'shock' of the Real (p. 3)
  • 2 Idiocy of Today's Realism (p. 5)
  • 3 Splendour of Today's Realism (p. 10)
  • 2 Feeling the Difference (p. 14)
  • 1 Aesthetics and Difference (p. 14)
  • 2 Bliss and Text (p. 16)
  • 3 The 'Epoche' and the Neuter (p. 17)
  • 4 Two Versions of the 'Sex Appeal' of the Inorganic (p. 20)
  • 5 Psychotic Realism (p. 21)
  • 6 Toward the Extremely Beautiful (p. 24)
  • 3 Warhol and the Postmodern (p. 26)
  • 1 The Postmodern Dissensus (p. 26)
  • 2 Warhol's Cynicism (p. 28)
  • 3 Sexuality, Suffering and Genetics (p. 31)
  • 4 Towards a Philosophical Cinema (p. 34)
  • 1 A Visual Philosophy? (p. 34)
  • 2 The Library of Images Not Seen (p. 35)
  • 3 Is It Fair to Punish Horizontal Collaborators? (p. 37)
  • 4 Iconoclastic Undinism (p. 40)
  • 5 Deafness and Estrangement (p. 42)
  • 5 The Third System of Art (p. 44)
  • 1 Art without Aura, Criticism without Theory (p. 44)
  • 2 On the Credibility of Art and the Uniqueness of the Artist (p. 44)
  • 3 Beyond the Aura and Mechanical Reproduction (p. 46)
  • 4 Modern and Contemporary Paradigms (p. 47)
  • 5 The Heroic-Ironic Role of Art and Philosophy (p. 50)
  • 6 Greatness, Justification, Compromise (p. 51)
  • 6 Art and Remainder (p. 55)
  • 1 Philosophy and the Other Arts (p. 55)
  • 2 Situationist's Anti-Art and the Event (p. 55)
  • 3 Conceptual Art and the Non-Identity of Art (p. 59)
  • 4 Art as Crypt (p. 65)
  • Notes (p. 71)
  • Mario Perniola's Books in English (p. 76)
  • Index of Names (p. 77)

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Mario Perniola is Professor of Aesthetics at the University of Rome at Tor Vergata
Massimo Verdicchio, the translator, is Professor of Italian in the Department of Modern Languages and Cultural Studies at the University of Alberta, Canada