-----Original Message----- From: Reber Simon <[email protected]> To: news <[email protected]> Sent: Tue, Mar 10, 2015 9:36 am Subject: [AE] News Item for Submission The Peter Lang Publishing Group is pleased to announce the publication of B Michalle Gal, Aestheticism: Deep Formalism and the Emergence of Modernist Aesthetics B Bern 2015. 164 pp., 6 colored illustrations B ISBN 978-3-0343-0527-3 paperback CHF 56.00 / b,(D) 49.90 / b,(A) 51.30 / b, 46.60 / B# 37.00 / US-$ 60.95 B This is the twelfth volume in the series Nature, Science and the Arts, edited by Julia Burbulla, Bernd Nicolai, Ana-Stanca Tabarasi-Hoffmann, Philip Ursprung and Wolf Wucherpfennig. Nature, Science and the Arts is an international scholarly series dealing with the history of cultural interplay between arts, humanities, natural sciences and technology, both on the level of theoretical reflection and in artistic enunciations. B Michalle Galbs Aestheticism: Deep Formalism and the Emergence of Modernist Aesthetics offers, for the first time in aesthetics, a comprehensive account of aestheticism of the 19th century as a philosophical theory of its own right. Taking philosophical and art-historical viewpoints, this cross-disciplinary book presents aestheticism as the foundational movement of modernist aesthetics of the 20th century. Emerging in the writings of the foremost aestheticists b Oscar Wilde, Walter Pater, James Whistler, and their formalist successors such as Clive Bell, Roger Fry, and Clement Greenberg b aestheticism offers a uniquely synthetic definition of art. It captures the artworkbs relations between form and content, artbs independent ontology and autonomy, artbs internal completeness, criticism, immunity to recruitment, the uniqueness of each medium, and musicality, as well as the logical-theoretical affiliation of art for artbs sake to epistemology, ethics and philosophy of language. Those are used by Michalle Gal to formulate a definition of art in terms of a theory of Deep Formalism, setting aestheticism, which aspires to preserve the artistic medium, as a critique of the current linguistic-conceptual aesthetics that developed after the linguistic turn of aesthetics. B Michalle Galbs book can be ordered from the Peter Lang website: www.peterlang.com?430527 B For more information on our publishing program in Philosophy, please have a look at our new Philosophy catalogue: http://www.peterlang.com/downloads B _______________________________________________ news mailing list [email protected] http://lists.aesthetics-online.org/listinfo.cgi/news-aesthetics-online.org
