Esthetics Contemporary

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• Esthetics Contemporary *
• Epigraphs 5
• Contents 7
• Preface to the Original Edition 13
• Preface to the Revised Edition 15
• Introduction - Contemporary American Esthetics 17
• Part One *
• The Aesthetics of the Avant-Garde *
• The Function of Art 65
• Space-Time Problems 69
• The Relation of Environment to Anti-Environment 75
• Apropos of "Readymades" 83
• Art and Disorder 85
• Chance-Imagery 103
• Apocalypse - The Place of Mystery in the Life of the Mind 114
• On Form 119

• Esthetics Contemporary *
• Epigraphs 5
• Contents 7
• Preface to the Original Edition 13
• Preface to the Revised Edition 15
• Introduction - Contemporary American Esthetics 17
• Part One *
• The Aesthetics of the Avant-Garde *
• The Function of Art 65
• Space-Time Problems 69
• The Relation of Environment to Anti-Environment 75
• Apropos of "Readymades" 83
• Art and Disorder 85
• Chance-Imagery 103
• Apocalypse - The Place of Mystery in the Life of the Mind 114
• On Form 119
• Style and the Representation of Historical Time 125
• Art and Authenticity 132
• Systems Esthetics 144
• Programmed Esthetics 154
• Art as Internal Technology - The Return of the Shaman—the Descent of the Goddess 157
• Response to a Questionnaire from the Center for Socio-Experimental Art 168
• Intermedia 173
• Criticism and Its Premises 177
• The Delta of Modernism 182
• Part Two 188
• Necessity of "Formalism" *
• Modernist Painting 195
• My Painting 202
• "Art-As-Art" 203
• The General Public is Just as Disinterested in Advanced Art as Ever 207
• Realism Now 209
• 10 Structurists in 20 Paragraphs 216
• The Eye and the Spectator 224
• The Expanding and Disappearing Work of Art 236
• Meaningless Work 240
• A Sedimentation of the Mind 242
• Notes Toward Conditional Art 253
• Phenomenal Art: - Form, Idea and Technique 258
• De-Architecturization 266
• The Composer as Specialist 278
• Postmodern and Late Modern: the Essential Definitions 285
• Cagean Esthetics 290
• Music as a Gradual Process 302
• Glass and Snow 305
• The Impermanent Art 310
• A Quasi-Survey of Some "Minimalist" Tendencies in the Quantitatively Minimal Dance Activity Midst the Plethora 315
• What is a Dancer? 319
• Words Per Page 320
• Photography and Aesthetics 331
• The Image in Question Further Notes on the Directorial Mode 339
• "When the Mode of the Music Changes the Walls of the City Shake" 345
• An Abc of Contemporary Reading 350
• Pre-Face 383
• The New Art of Making Books 386
• Video Art - Theory for a Future 398
• New Radio Drama as Acoustical Art 405
• Holography as Art 415
• The Education of the Un-Artist, III 417
• Concept Art 429
• Paragraphs on Conceptual Art 432
• A Something Else Manifesto 436
• Notes 436
• Bibliography 451
• Contributors 465