After the Beautiful: Hegel and the Philosophy of Pictorial Modernism Pippin Robert B.
After the Beautiful: Hegel and the Philosophy of Pictorial Modernism Pippin Robert B. In his Berlin lectures on fine art, Hegel argued that art involves a unique form of aesthetic…
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After the Beautiful: Hegel and the Philosophy of Pictorial Modernism Pippin Robert B.
In his Berlin lectures on fine art, Hegel argued that art involves a unique form of aesthetic intelligibility--the expression of a distinct collective self-understanding that develops through historical time. In After the Beautiful, Robert B. Hegel's approach to art has been influential in a number of different contexts, but in a twist of historical irony Hegel would die just before the most radical artistic revolution in history: modernism.
Pippin offers a Pippin, looking at modernist paintings by artists such as douard Manet and Paul C zanne through Hegel's lens, does what Hegel never had the chance to do.While Hegel could never engage modernist painting, he did have an understanding of modernity, and in it, art--he famously asserted--was "a thing of the past," no longer an important vehicle of self-understanding and no longer an indispensable expression of human meaning.