Arts with or without Ideas: Idealist Remnants in Contemporary Concepts of Art

Past philosophical ideas about arts influence contemporary artistic practices.We still use traditional Idealist concepts, such as the autonomy of art or the subjective expression of the artist. At the same time, today’s art often attacks and abandons Idealist thinking.The author of this book analyses this relation between the Idealist conception of the arts including literature and present-day reality. The aim is to create a link between past and present artistic practices and theoretical, philosophical thinking. The author also questions the Idealist notions of history and the relation between the theoretical, the aesthetic and the practical, and seeks new ways to deal with the relation between the past and the present. Additional ISBNs 363174370X, 3631745036, 9783631743706, 9783631745038Arts with or without Ideas: Idealist Remnants in Contemporary Concepts of Art 1st Edition is written by Veli-Matti Saarinen and published by Peter Lang Gmb H, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften. ISBNs for Arts with or without Ideas are 9783631745021, 3631745028 and the print ISBNs are 9783631743706, 363174370X. Additional ISBNs include 363174370X, 3631745036, 9783631743706, 9783631745038.