The Life and Death of Images by Diarmuid Costello
During the 1970s and 1980s the discourse surrounding aesthetics largely disappeared from the study of art history, theory, and cultural studies. Claims for the aesthetic value of artworks were thought elitist and politically regressive. The 1990s...
"The Life and Death of Images is a well-conceived intervention in one of the principal impasses in contemporary theories of the image: the question, broadly put, of what comes after the opposition of the aesthetic and the anti-aestheticFor almost three decades now, that question has been surfacing in various forms-as institutional critique, as relational aesthetics, as a return to beauty-but almost no interesting work has been done on the underlying issues. Costello and Willsdon conceive the problem in terms of aesthetics and ethics, and they enlist a number of the foremost writers in and around images in a series of exchanges. The format is innovative, and generates the kind of real interdisciplinary friction that is so often missing from ordinary edited volumes. The book's insights and hopes are an accurate reflection of the state of conceptualization of the image."—James Elkins, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Diarmuid Costello is Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Codirector of the AHRC research project "Aesthetics after Photography" at the University of Warwick. Dominic Willsdon is the Leanne and George Roberts Curator of Education and Public Programs at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780801474552 |
| ISBN 10 | 0801474558 |
| Title | The Life and Death of Images |
| Author | Diarmuid Costello |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Cornell University Press |
| Year published | 2008-04-10 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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