Homemade esthetics : observations on art and taste / Clement Greenberg.

"In this work, which gathers previously uncollected essays and a series of seminars delivered at Bennington in 1971, Greenberg provides his most expansive statement of his views on taste and quality in art, arguing for an esthetic that flies in the face of current art world fashions." &quo...

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Main Author: Greenberg, Clement, 1909-1994
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.
Series:OUP E-Books.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : the judgment of art / Charles Harrison
  • pt. 1. The essays. Intuition and the esthetic experience
  • Esthetic judgment
  • Can taste be objective?
  • The factor of surprise
  • Judgment and the esthetic object
  • Convention and innovation
  • The experience of value
  • The language of esthetic discourse
  • Observations on esthetic distance
  • pt. 2. The Bennington College seminars, April 6-22, 1971
  • Appendix : a draft of Chapter one.