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Esthetics contemporary

Author: Richard Kostelanetz
Publisher: Buffalo : Prometheus Books, 1978.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Richard Kostelanetz
ISBN: 0879751053 : 9780879751050 0879750944 9780879750947
OCLC Number: 3636237
Description: 444 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: pt. 1. Contemporary American esthetics / Richard Kostelanetz ; The aesthetics of the avant-garde / Michael Kirby ; The fuction of art / L. Moholy-Nagy ; Space-time problems / L. Moholy-Nagy ; The relation of environment to anti-environment / Marshall McLuhan ; Apropos of "readymades" / Marcel Duchamp ; Art and disorder / Morse Peckham ; Chance-imagery / George Brecht ; Semi constructs of the Secrétaire du registre / Carl D. Clark and Loris Essary ; On form / Kenneth Burke ; Style and the representation of historical time / George Kubler ; Art and authenticity / Nelson Goodman ; Systems esthetics / Jack Burnham ; Aesthetics and the contemporary arts / Arnold Berleant ; Art as internal technology : the return of the shaman--the descent of the goddess / José A. Argüelles ; Intermedia / Dick Higgins ; Criticism and its premises / Harold Rosenberg --
pt. 2. Modernist painting / Clement Greenberg ; Necessity of formalism / Clement Greenberg ; My painting / Jackson Pollock ; "art-as-art" / Ad Reinhardt ; The general public is just as disinterested in advanced art as ever / Will Insley ; Realism now / Linda Nochlin ; 10 structures in 20 paragraphs / Lucy R. Lippard ; The expanding and disappearing work of art / Lawrence Alloway ; Meaningless work / Walter de Maria ; A sedimentation of the mind / Robert Smithson ; Phenomenal art : form, idea, technique / James Seawright ; De-architecturization / James Wines ; The composer as specialist / Milton Babbitt ; The future of music / John Cage ; Music as gradual process / Steve Reich ; Glass and snow / Richard Foreman ; The impermanent art / Merce Cunningham ; A quadi-survey of some "minimalist" tendencies in the quantitatively minimal dance activity midst the plethora / Yvonne Rainer ; Words per page / Paul Sharits ; "When the mode of the music changes the walls of the city shake" / Allen Ginsberg ; An ABC of contemporary reading / Richard Kostelanetz ; Pre-face / Jerome Rothenberg ; Video : distinctive features of the medium / David Antin ; The education of the un-artist III / Allan Kaprow ; Concept art / Henry Flynt ; Paragraphs on conceptual art / Sol LeWitt ; A something else manifesto / Dick Higgins.
Responsibility: edited by Richard Kostelanetz.

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