ebooks The Henry Mancini Collection Songbook by Hal Leonard in Arts-Photography

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In his Berlin lectures on fine art; Hegel argued that art involves a unique form of aesthetic intelligibilitymdash;the expression of a distinct collective self-understanding that develops through historical time. Hegelrsquo;s approach to art has been influential in a number of different contexts; but in a twist of historical irony Hegel would die just before the most radical artistic revolution in history: modernism. In After the Beautiful; Robert B. Pippin; looking at modernist paintings by artists such as Eacute;douard Manet and Paul Ceacute;zanne through Hegelrsquo;s lens; does what Hegel never had the chance to do.While Hegel could never engage modernist painting; he did have an understanding of modernity; and in it; artmdash;he famously assertedmdash;was ldquo;a thing of the past;rdquo; no longer an important vehicle of self-understanding and no longer an indispensable expression of human meaning. Pippin offers a sophisticated exploration of Hegelrsquo;s position and its implications. He also shows that had Hegel known how the social institutions of his day would ultimately fail to achieve his own version of genuine equality; a mutuality of recognition; he would have had to explore a different; new role for art in modernity. After laying this groundwork; Pippin goes on to illuminate the dimensions of Hegelrsquo;s aesthetic approach in the path-breaking works of Manet; the ldquo;grandfather of modernism;rdquo; drawing on art historians T. J. Clark and Michael Fried to do so. He concludes with a look at Ceacute;zanne; the ldquo;father of modernism;rdquo; this time as his works illuminate the relationship between Hegel and the philosopher who would challenge Hegelrsquo;s account of both modernity and artmdash;Martin Heidegger.