WRITING ART AND ARCHITECTURE

ISBN: 9780980819700 Géneros: AM:HPN Sinópsis: In his new book the eminent philosopher Andrew Benjamin turns his attention to architecture design sculpture painting and writing Drawing predominantly on a European tradition of modern philosophical criticism running from the German Romantics through Walter Benjamin and beyond he offers a sequence of strong meditations on a diverse ensemble of works and themes on the library and the house on architectural theory on Rachel Whiteread Peter Eisenman Anselm Kiefer Peter Nielson David Hawley Terri Bird Elizabeth Presa and others In Benjamins hands criticism is bound up with judgment Objects of criticism always become more than mere documents These essays dissolve the prejudices that have determined our relation to aesthetic objects and to thought releasing in their very care and attentiveness to the objects themselves the unexpected potentialities such objects harbour In his sensitivity to what he calls the particularity of material events Benjamins writing comes to exemplify new possibilities for the contemporary practice of criticism itself These essays are a major contribution to critical thought about art and architecture today and a genuine work of what Benjamin himself identifies as a materialist aesthetics