Against Affective Formalism Matisse, Bergson, Modernism |
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| Author:
| Cronan, Todd |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8166-7603-3 |
| Publication Date: | Aug 2013 |
| Publisher: | University of Minnesota Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | AUD $34.99 |
Book Description:
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Against Affective Formalism confronts modernism's dissatisfactions with representation. Writing in opposition to prevailing theories and assumptions about the relation of intention and form Todd Cronan argues that the beholder's response to art, outside a framework of intentionality, is irrelevant to a work's meaning. What matters is that intentions make works of art different from objects in the world.
Against Affective Formalism confronts modernism's dissatisfactions with representation. Writing in opposition to prevailing theories and assumptions about the relation of intention and form Todd Cronan argues that the beholder's response to art, outside a framework of intentionality, is irrelevant to a work's meaning. What matters is that intentions make works of art different from objects in the world.