The aesthete in the city

Author

Carrier, David

Document type

Article (journal)

Language

English

Source

Arts magazine. 1990, Num. 8, Vol. 64, 67-73

ISSN

0004-4059

Abstract (en)

Reflects on the art critic's experience of viewing art and the relation of this experience to the particular surrounding urban environment. In this context, discusses the writings of John Ruskin, Adrian Stokes, Walter Benjamin, T.J. Clark, Fredric Jameson, Arthur Danto, and others, noting the author's own indebtedness to these writers and his own experiences writing about contemporary New York art in the 1980s. Concludes that the lesson that all these writers teach is that "all aesthetics constantly aspires towards the condition of social criticism."

Subject (en)

• General history of art
• Art
• Art criticism
• Environment
• Cities
• Society
• Writings
• Ruskin, John, 1819-1900
• Stokes, Adrian Durham, 1902-1972
• Jameson, Fredric, 20th c.
• Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940
• Danto, Arthur Coleman, b.1924
• Carrier, David, b.1944
• Art critics
• United States
• New York (NY, USA)
• Aesthetics
• Influence

Subject (fr)

• Histoire générale de l'art
• Art
• Critique d'art
• Environnement
• Ville
• Société
• Ecrits
• Ruskin, John, 1819-1900
• Stokes, Adrian Durham, 1902-1972
• Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940
• Danto, Arthur Coleman, n.1924
• Carrier, David, n.1944
• Critiques d'art
• Etats-Unis
• New York (NY, USA)
• Esthétique
• Influence

Origin

DatabaseBHA (Inist-CNRS/GRI)

Identifier19920401-00423571

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