Graham Harman - Art and Objects

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2 Front Matter Art and Objects Graham Harman polity

3 Abbreviations Abbreviations IClement Greenberg, The Collected Essays and Criticism, Vol. 1IIClement Greenberg, The Collected Essays and Criticism, Vol. 2IIIClement Greenberg, The Collected Essays and Criticism, Vol. 3IVClement Greenberg, The Collected Essays and Criticism, Vol. 4AAMT.J. Clark, “Arguments About Modernism”ABRobert Pippin, After the BeautifulADJacques Rancière, Aesthetics and its DiscontentsAEAArthur Danto, After the End of ArtANAPeter Osborne, Anywhere or Not at AllAOMichael Fried, Art and ObjecthoodAOARobert Jackson, “The Anxiousness of Objects and Artworks”AAPJoseph Kosuth, “Art After Philosophy”ATMichael Fried, Absorption and TheatricalityAWArthur Danto, Andy WarholBBJElaine Scarry, On Beauty and Being JustBNDHal Foster, Bad New DaysCGTAT.J. Clark, “Clement Greenberg’s Theory of Art”CJImmanuel Kant, Critique of JudgmentCRMichael Fried, Courbet’s RealismDBGavin Parkinson, The Duchamp BookESJacques Rancière, The Emancipated SpectatorFIT.J. Clark, Farewell to an IdeaGDGraham Harman, “Greenberg, Duchamp, and the Next Avant-Garde”HEClement Greenberg, Homemade EstheticsHMWMichael Fried, “How Modernism Works”KADThierry de Duve, Kant After DuchampLWClement Greenberg, Late WritingsMMMichael Fried, Manet’s ModernismNOBettina Funcke, “Not Objects so Much as Images”OAGRosalind Krauss, The Originality of the Avant-GardeOCLeo Steinberg, Other CriteriaOOSRoger Rothman, “Object-Oriented Surrealism”OURosalind Krauss, The Optical UnconsciousPAJacques Rancière, The Politics of AestheticsRRHal Foster, The Return of the RealTCArthur Danto, The Transfiguration of the CommonplaceTNHarold Rosenberg, The Tradition of the New

4 Preliminary Note Notes

5 Introduction: Formalism and the Lessons of Dante Notes

6 1 OOO and Art: A First Summary Heidegger’s Insight: The Concealed and the Unconcealed Husserl’s Insight: Objects and Qualities Metaphor and its Implications Notes

7 2 Formalism and its Flaws Beauty The Sublime OOO and Kantian Formalism Notes

8 3 Theatrical, Not Literal Art and Objecthood Theatrical Aesthetics Adventures of Absorption Notes

9 4 The Canvas is the Message Fried contra Greenberg Background and Foreground The Limits of Flatness Notes

10 5 After High Modernism The Other “Bergs” T.J. Clark vs. The Petty Bourgeoisie Krauss: Background as Simulacrum Rancière: The Distribution of the Sensible Notes

11 6 Dada, Surrealism, and Literalism Literalism and Modernism Dada and Literalism Surrealism and Literalism Conclusions Notes

12 7 Weird Formalism Bad New Days Five Implications Notes

13 Works Cited

14 Index

15 End User License Agreement

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Title: Art and objects / Graham Harman.

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