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Composed in a series of scenes, Aisthesis –Rancière’s definitive statement on the aesthetic–takes its reader from Dresden in 1764 to New York in 1941. Along the way, we view the Belvedere Torso with Winckelmann, accompany Hegel to the museum and Mallarmé to the Folies-Bergère, attend a lecture by Emerson, visit exhibitions in Paris and New York, factories in Berlin, and film sets in Moscow and Hollywood. Rancière uses these sites and events—some famous, others forgotten—to ask what becomes art and what comes of it. He shows how a regime of artistic perception and interpretation was constituted and transformed by erasing the specificities of the different arts, as well as the borders that separated them from ordinary experience. This incisive study provides a history of artistic modernity far removed from the conventional postures of modernism. Review “Jacques Rancière’s Aisthesis transforms the field of aesthetic philosophy.”— Libération “French philosopher Jacques Rancière is a refreshing read for anyone concerned with what art has to do with politics and society.”— Art Review “In the face of impossible attempts to proceed with progressive ideas within the terms of postmoderni

Who reads Aisthesis : Scenes From the Aesthetic Regime of Art?

Author

Jacques Rancière; Zakir Paul

Publisher

Verso Books

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9781781683095

Category

philosophy

Subjects

History, Philosophy, Art

Rating

4.1 / 5 (78 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14