Art and life in aestheticism [Elektronisk resurs] De-humanizing and re-humanizing art, the artist and the artistic receptor / Edited by Kelly Comfort.

• List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: Reflections on the Relationship between the Art and Life in Aestheticism-- K.Comfort REEVALUATING THE SEMINAL WORKS OF NINETEENTH-CENTURY AESTHETICISM The Critic as Cosmopolite: Baudelaire's International Sensibility and the Transformation of Viewer Subjectivity-- M.Murphy Rossetti's Aesthetically Saturated Readings: Art's Dehumanizing Power-- I.Martin Dickens A La Carte: Aesthetic Victualism and the Invigoration of the Artist in Huysmans' Against Nature-- P.Fox RECONSIDERING TURN-OF-THE-CENTURY AESTHETICISM Aesthetic Vampirism: Pater, Wilde, and the Irony of the Modern Object-- A.Eastham The Dehumanization of the Artistic Receptor: The George Circle's Rejection of Paterian Aestheticism-- Y.Ivory Art for the Body's Sake: Nietzsche's Physical Aestheticism-- K.Ashbaugh REREADING THE AESTHETICIST STRAND OF TWENTIETH-CENTURY LITERATURE From 'God of the Creation' to 'Hangman God': Joyce's Re-Assessment of Aestheticism-- D.M.Shea The Aesthetic Anxiety: Avant-Garde Poetics, Autonomous Aesthetics, and the Idea of Politics-- R.Archambeau On the Cold War, American Aestheticism, the Nabokov Problem--and Me-- G.H.Bell-Villeda REASSESSING AESTHETICISM IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY THEORY Beauty By Damned: Or Why Adorno Valorizes Carrion, Stench, and Putrefaction-- C.B.Sumner 'This temptation to be undone...': Sontag, Barthes, and the Uses of Style-- S.Garland Art for Heart's Sake: The Aesthetic Existences of Kierkegaard, Pater, and Iser-- B.De Bruyn Notes Index.

• Art for art's sake addresses the relationship between art and life. Although it has long been argued that aestheticism aims to de-humanize art, this volume seeks to consider the counterclaim that such de-humanization can also lead to re-humanization and to a deepened relationship between the aesthetic sphere and the world at large. -- Art and Life in Aestheticism examines the relationship between the aesthetic and the human realms over the past two hundred years of aestheticism's genealogy in Europe and the Americas. The chronological and transnational scope permits a consideration of the potential social import of literary and artistic creations that purportedly exist for their own sake. Drawing on and expanding the concept of de-humanization put forth by Jose Ortega y Gasset, contributors determine whether or not the de-humanization of art leads to re-humanization, that is, to a deepened relationship between the aesthetic sphere and the world at large or between the artist or the artistic receptor and his or her human existence. Although not all contributors locate a corresponding process of re-humanization to match, counter, or accompany aestheticism's de-humanizing impulse, they share in the volume's mission of rethinking the underpinnings of the aestheticism movement and its complex treatment of art and life. 

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Philosophy: aesthetics.  (bicssc)

Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800.  (bicssc)

Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900.  (bicssc)

Literary studies: from c 1900 -.  (bicssc)

Theory of art.  (bicssc)

Philosophy.  (eflch)

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