The Primitive, the Aesthetic, and the Savage: An Enlightenment Problematic 9780816675623

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Автор: Tony C. Brown
Название: The Primitive, the Aesthetic, and the Savage: An Enlightenment Problematic
ISBN: 9780816675623
Издательство: Marston Book Services
Классификация:

Колониальное искусство

Литература: история и критика

История Британии и Ирландии

ISBN-10: 0816675627
Обложка/Формат: Hardcover
Страницы: 304
Вес: 0.45 кг.
Дата издания: 01.12.2012
Серия: Arts
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: 5 b/w illustrations
Размер: 216 x 140 x 38
Читательская аудитория: Professional and scholarly
Ключевые слова: Colonial art,Literature: history & criticism,British & Irish history, ART / History / General,HISTORY / Europe / General,LITERARY CRITICISM / General
Подзаголовок: An enlightenment problematic
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: Tony C. Brown examines the inescapable yet infinitely troubling figure of the not-quite-nothingin Enlightenment attempts to think about the aesthetic and the savage. The various texts Brown considers—including the writings of Addison, Rousseau, Kant, and Defoe—turn to exotic figures in order to delimit the aesthetic, and to aesthetics in order to comprehend the savage.In his intriguing exploration Brown discovers that the primitive introduces into the aesthetic and the savage an element that proves necessary yet difficult to conceive. At its most profound, Brown explains, this element engenders a loss of confidence in ones ability to understand the humans relation to itself and to the world. That loss of confidence—what Brown refers to as a breach in anthropological security—traces to an inability to maintain a sense of self in the face of the New World. Demonstrating the impact of the primitive on the aesthetic and the savage, he shows how the eighteenth-century writers he focuses on struggle to define the humans place in the world. As Brown explains, these authors go back again and again to exoticexamples from the New World—such as Indian burial mounds and Maori tattooing practice—making them so ubiquitous that they come to underwrite, even produce, philosophy and aesthetics.

The Primitive, the Aesthetic, and the Savage: An Enlightenment Problematic, Tony C. Brown