Aesthetic autonomy : problems and perspectives

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Aesthetic autonomy : problems and perspectives

edited by Barend van Heusden and Liesbeth Korthals Altes

(Groningen studies in cultural change / general editor, M. Gosman, v. 15)

Peeters, 2004

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Bibliography: p. [131]-140

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This volume contains a selection of essays presented at the international conference on Cultural Crises in Art and Literature, held in Groningen in November 2002, in a special session on the question of the autonomy of the arts. Do we witness, in western culture, the end of the autonomy of the arts as it has been conceptualized and institutionalized since the eighteenth century? Indeed, developments of quite a different nature seem to have contributed to a blurring of boundaries between art and non-art, art and the market, art and politics or ethics, as well as between the arts themselves, and between 'high' and 'low' art. Although this volume does not pretend to map this complex process in its entirety - partly because it is impossible to step out of one's own history - it is meant as a contribution to the elucidation of the process itself, offering some challenging explanations as to the heat of the current debate.

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