Introduction / Armen Avanessian & Luke Skrebowski -- Not yet : the philosophical significance of aesthetics / Christoph Menke -- Aesthetics of form revisited / Armen Avanessian -- 7 negations. Against aesthetic affirmationism / Juliane Rebentisch -- Undoing the image (signposts of a research programme) / Eric Alliez -- Aesthetic materiality in conceptualism / Sebastian Egenhofer -- The fiction of the contemporary : speculative collectivity and transnationality in the atlas group / Peter Osborne -- The contemporary : a new idea? / John Rajchman -- Short treatise on art / Stewart Martin -- Feeling good : the aesthetics of corporate art / Art & Language -- The rise of the exhibition and the exhibition as art / Dorothea Von Hantelmann -- The invisible hand of curation / Pamela M. Lee -- The rules of the game : activist art in the creative city / Brian Holmes -- The two versions of Santa Anna's leg and other things / Luis Camnitzer.
Summary:
Torn between a revival of aesthetics and the persistence of conceptualism, critical writing about contemporary art has once again come to focus on differing views of its aesthetic dimension. The context and character of these debates has, however, shifted markedly since the 1960s, with changes in art practices, institutions, political contexts, and theoretical paradigms-and in particular, with the global extension of the Western art world since 1989. This inter- and transdisciplinary collection of essays by philosophers, artists, critics, and art historians, reconsiders the place of the aesthetic in contemporary art, with reference to four main themes: aesthetics as 'sensate thinking'; the dissolution of artistic limits; post-autonomous practices; and exhibition-values in a global artworld.
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