03143cam a2200361 i 4500 20866204 CSPC 20250813163031.0 190226s2020 enk b 001 0 eng 2019008491 9781509512683 (pbk.) 20866204 DLC eng rda DLC DLC CSPC pcc BH39 .H367 2020 111.85 H227a 23 Harman, Graham, 1968- author. Art and objects / Graham Harman. Cambridge, UK ; Medford, MA : Polity Press, 2020 ; Reprint 2021. xii, 204 pages ; 23 cm. text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. Introduction: formalism and the lessons of Dante -- OOO and art: a first summary -- Formalism and its flaws -- Theatrical, not literal -- The canvas is the message -- After high modernism -- Dada, surrealism, and literalism -- Weird formalism. In this book, the founder of object-oriented ontology develops his view that aesthetics is the central discipline of philosophy. Whereas science must attempt to grasp an object in terms of its observable qualities, philosophy and art cannot proceed in this way because they don't have direct access to their objects. Hence philosophy shares the same fate as art in being compelled to communicate indirectly, allusively, or elliptically, rather than in the clear propositional terms that are often taken – wrongly – to be the sole stuff of genuine philosophy. Conceiving of philosophy and art in this way allows us to reread key debates in aesthetic theory and to view art history in a different way. The formalist criticism of Greenberg and Fried is rejected for its refusal to embrace the innate theatricality and deep multiplicity of every artwork. This has consequences for art criticism, making pictorial content more important than formalism thinks but less entwined with the social sphere than anti-formalism holds. It has consequences for art history too, as the surrealists, David, and Poussin, among others, gain in importance. The close link between aesthetics and ontology also invites a new periodization of modern philosophy as a whole, and the habitual turn away from Kant’s thing-in-itself towards an increase in philosophical "immanence" is shown to be a false dawn. This major work will be of great interest to students and scholars of philosophy, aesthetics, art history and cultural theory. Aesthetics. Online version: Harman, Graham, 1968- author. Art and objects Medford, MA : Polity, 2019 9781509512713 (DLC) 2019017058 7 cbc orignew 1 ecip 20 y-gencatlg ddc BK 23 111.85 H227a CIR 2020 0 0 0 ddc 0 0 CSPC CSPC CIR 2023-05-12 0 CIR 111.85 H227a 2020 023099 2023-05-12 00:00:00 1-2 2023-05-12 BK 0 0 ddc 0 0 CSPC CSPC CIR 2025-08-13 1 CIR 111.85 H227a 2020 030000 2026-02-19 09:01:40 2026-01-06 2-2 2025-08-13 BK 11841 11841