Uncontrollable Beauty: Toward a New Aesthetics

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In this acclaimed art anthology a prestigious group of artists critics and literati offer their incisive reflections on the questions of beauty past present and future and how it has become a domain of multiple perspectives. Here is Meyer Schapiros skeptical argument on perfection . . . contributions from artists as profound as Louise Bourgeois and Agnes Martin . . . and reflections of critics curators and philosophers on the problems of beauty and relativism. Readers will find fascinating insights from such art theorists and critics as Dave Hickey Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe Donald Kuspit Carter Ratcliff and dozens more.