Art | Politics of Aesthetics
In the following review, Danto explores references to the ‘‘politics of aesthetics’’ found in Art.
L’art contemporain has become an incendiary expression in French discourse today, arousing anger and partisanship of a kind largely unknown in the United States, where ‘‘contemporary art’’ merely denotes the art being made these days. In April 1997, what had been a series of heated exchanges in various news papers and journals spilled over into a public disputation at Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, where advocates of various positions sought to defend them before an exceedingly unruly crowd of about a thousand people, who drowned them out with shouts of ‘‘Nazi!’’...
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