Art, Philosophy, and Ideology

Aleš Erjavec, Ph.D. (1988), University of Ljubljana, is Research Professor Emeritus at the Institute of Philosophy of the Scientific Research Center of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia. He has published widely on the avantgarde and post-socialist art, including Aesthetic Revolutions and Twentieth-Century Avant-Garde Movements (Duke UP, 2015). Tyrus Miller, Ph.D. (1994), Stanford University, is Distinguished Professor of Art History and English at the University of California Irvine. He has published extensively on modernism and the avant-garde, the Frankfurt School, and Georg Lukács, including Georg Lukács and Critical Theory: Aesthetics, History, Utopia (Edinburgh UP, 2023).

Sources of Original Publication

List of Figures



1 Editor’s Introduction



SECTION 1: Visual Aesthetics in Postsocialism, Postmodernism, and Contemporary Art



2 Why Architecture in Post-Modern Times? (1989)

3 Art, Cognition, Knowledge, and Diagnostics (1993)

4 Seeing, Painting and Art (1996)

5 Aesthetics as Philosophy (1999)

6 Aesthetics: Philosophy of Art or Philosophy of Culture? (2001)

7 Art beyond Aesthetics, or, the Consequences of Promiscuity (2001)

8 The End of Art (c. 2003)

9 Art and: a Toothless Tiger, a Cuddly Panda or a Snow Leopard? (2009)

10 Aesthetics and the Aesthetic Today: after Adorno (2010)

11 Artification and the Aesthetic Regime of Art (2012)

12 Art and Aesthetics: from Modernism to Contemporary (2013)



SECTION 2: Aesthetic Revolution and Avantgardes in East, Central and Western Europe



13 Power, Freedom and Subversion: Political Theater and Its Limits (2009)

14 Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge! (2014)

15 Art, Aesthetics, and Politics (2014)

16 Revolutions and the Avantgardes (2016)

17 Ideology as World-View and Two Early Avantgarde Movements (2017)

18 The Avantgardes, Utopias and Clothes (2017)

19 (Post)Modern Aesthetics on Trial: Revisiting a Century of Avantgardes Interview with Oana Șerban (2017)



SECTION 3: Spatial Turns: Central/East European Aesthetics in National, International, and Global Contexts



20 Philosophy, National and International (1997)

21 Global Aesthetics and the IAA/AIE (2002)

22 Postmodernism and the Post-Socialist Condition (c. 2003)

23 Locations, Relocations and Reinterpretations (2006)

24 Eastern Europe, Art, and the Politics of Representation (2014)

25 Zhuyi: from Absence to Bustle? (Comments on Wang Jianjiang’s Article “The Bustle and the Absence of Zhuyi”) (2017)

26 Photography: of Nation and Mountains (2018)



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