Art in Progress
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Language
English
ISBN
90-5356-585-x
Contents
Foreword
Introduction
The second Labor of Hercules
After history
Whence, how, whither?
1 Perspectives on Progress: A History
The Great Exhibition
The meaning of the history of ideas
Koselleck: the history of ideas of progress
Ideas of progress and related categories of change
2 From the Ancients and the Moderns: A Door to the Future
The Querelle between the Ancients and the Moderns
A new look at an old question
Perfection and perfectibility
3 From Romanticism to the Avant-Garde
The nineteenth century: Comte and Spencer
Nineteenth-century cultural science:
Modernism and the avant-garde
4 On Making Revolution
‘The little Modernsky’
The present as the past of the future
The structure of artistic revolutions
The progress argument
The periodizing museum
Progress as aporia
5 Innovation in Painting and Architecture: De Stijl
Abstraction and the beauty of a grain silo
The new style and the spirit of the time
Innovation in architecture
Innovation in painting
Consistent development
The artistic revolution of De Stijl
De Stijl and posterity
6 The End of Art
The cakewalk in the present
The avant-garde as apotheosis: the end of art
Forward again: the end of Arthur Danto
Farewell to progress?
7 A New Approach to an Old Concept
Ever richer
Art as cognition
Progress as regulative principle
Notes
Bibliography
Index of Names
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