Summary
Aleš Erjavec: Love at the last glance
Avant-garde, aesthetics and the end of art
The book consists of thirteen essays by Aleš Erjavec, which are divided into three thematic units. The book also contains an afterword by Dr. Miško Šuvaković entitled "A close reading of Erjavac's critical aesthetics" which refers to the philosophical and aesthetic work of Aleš Erjavac from the end of the seventies of the 20th century to the present day, to his approach to aesthetics and the specific elaboration of the concept of aesthetic revolution.
The first chapter, entitled "Art, avant-garde, modernism and post-socialism", contains four essays that cover different areas of thinking about art and artistic practices and movements. In the first essay, the author analyzes the attitudes and viewpoints of the two leading philosophers of the 20th century, Theodor W. Adorno and Martin Heidegger, regarding modernist art, indicating how other authors in the postmodern period used and developed their philosophies. In the second essay, the author focuses on Foucault's work "Words and Things", that is, on his reading and interpretation of Velazquez's painting The Companions (Las Meninas) and on the significance and influence that reading has in the context of the modernist understanding of art. The third essay is a story about the history and development of avant-garde movements
in the territory of the former Yugoslavia since their creation, that is, from the period of the First World War.
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