Spoiled Distinctions

Aesthetics and the Ordinary in French Modernism

Szerző: Hannah Freed-Thall

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Kiadó: Oxford University Press Inc

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Spoiled Distinctions charts twentieth-century experiments in the aesthetics of the ordinary, arguing...

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Szerző

Hannah Freed-Thall

Nyelv

Angol

Kötés

Könyv - Kemény kötésű

Kiadva

2015

oldal

224

EAN

9780190201029

ISBN

0190201029

Enbook ID

09310810

Kiadó

Oxford University Press Inc

Súly

436

Méretek

244 x 167 x 23

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Spoiled Distinctions charts twentieth-century experiments in the aesthetics of the ordinary, arguing that Proust and his literary and philosophical successors (Francis Ponge, Nathalie Sarraute, Yasmina Reza, Pierre Bourdieu, and Roland Barthes, among others) multiply strategies for reading and valuing the everyday. These authors explore the unsophisticated side of aesthetic experience. Alert to the ways in which the hunger for distinction shapes mundane acts of seeing and feeling, they invite us to imagine less exclusive practices of art-making and of aesthetic perception. While Bourdieu teaches us to understand "taste" as a social orienting device rather than simply a gift of nature, Proust, Ponge, and Sarraute teach us to pay attention to the disorienting phenomenology of aesthetic perceptions, which not only solidify social hierarchies, but also unsettle established criteria and habits of classification. At the same time, these authors substitute for the distance and dignity of Kantian "disinterestedness" a variety of non-appropriative, fumbling forms of aesthetic interest. Mapping the intersection of phenomenology, aesthetics, and the sociology of culture, the book identifies five experimental paradigms that spoil distinctions of taste: prestige, the quelconque ("whatever"), nuance, the awkward, and the douceatre ("sickly sweet"). These modernist heirs to the beautiful and sublime register the dissonance between residual, reverential habits of aesthetic enjoyment and the ordinariness of the artwork in late modernity.

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