Here, for the first time, Christopher Kul-Want brings together twenty-five texts on art written by twenty philosophers. Covering the Enlightenment to postmodernism, these essays draw on Continental philosophy and aesthetics, the Marxist intellectual tradition, and psychoanalytic theory, and each is accompanied by an overview and interpretation.
The volume features Martin Heidegger on Van Gogh's shoes and the meaning of the Greek temple; Georges Bataille on Salvador Dalí's The Lugubrious Game; Theodor W. Adorno on capitalism and collage; Walter Benjamin and Roland Barthes on the uncanny nature of photography; Sigmund Freud on Leonardo Da Vinci and his interpreters; Jacques Lacan and Julia Kristeva on the paintings of Holbein; Freud's postmodern critic, Gilles Deleuze on the visceral paintings of Francis Bacon; and Giorgio Agamben on the twin traditions of the Duchampian ready-made and Pop Art. Kul-Want elucidates these texts with essays on aesthetics, from Hegel and Nietzsche to Badiou and Rancière, demonstrating how philosophy adopted a new orientation toward aesthetic experience and subjectivity in the wake of Kant's powerful legacy.
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction: Art and Philosophy
- 1. Critique of Judgment
- 2. Introductory Lectures on Aesthetics
- 3. How the “True World” Finally Became a Fable: The History of an Error, The will Power as Art
- 4. Beyond the Pleasure Principle: Leonardo da Vinci and a Memory of His Childhood
- 5. The Lugubrious Game
- 6. A Small History of Photography
- 7. Nietzsche’s Overturning of Platonism: The Origin of the Work of Art
- 8. The Mirror Stage as Formative of the Function of the I: Of the Gaze as Object Petit a
- 9. Las Meninas
- 10. Society
- 11. The Work of Art and Fantasy
- 12. Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography
- 13. Giotto’s Joy: Holbein’s Dead Christ
- 14. Spurs: Nietzsche’s Styles
- 15. Hysteria
- 16. Answering the Question: What is Postmodernism?
- 17. Privation Is Like a Face
- 18. The Vestige of Art
- 19. Art and Philosophy
- 20. The Janus- Face of Politicized Art
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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