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The document discusses the changing conceptions of the aesthetic in art criticism over recent decades. It argues that notions of the "aesthetic" and "anti-aesthetic" have been invoked in shifting ways to delineate authentic avant-garde art from other practices. Specifically: - In the 1980s, Hal Foster promoted an "anti-aesthetic" that oriented art outward toward engagement with ideology rather than formal qualities. - Now some critics fear this erosion of autonomy and invoke the "aesthetic" to bifurcate

Author

Grant Kester

Language

EN