The Future of Art: An Aesthetics of the New and the Sublime (S U N Y Series in Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art)

Draws upon a wide range of aesthetic theories and artworks in order to challenge the view that art is valueless or purely subjective. By analyzing the three loci of aesthetics--the subjective, the objective, and the absolute--the author concludes that only the sublime demonstrates that art is neither subjective nor objective. The one essential component of art is the new, the sole "instrument" that can guarantee art's vitality even when confronted by the nihilistic tendencies of modernity. By Analyzing The Three Loci Of Aesthetics - The Subjective, The Objective, And The Absolute - The Author Concludes That Only The Sublime Demonstrates That Art Is Neither Subjective Nor Objective. The One Essential Component Of Art Is The New, The Sole Instrument That Can Guarantee Art's Vitality Even When Confronted By The Nihilistic Tendencies Of Modernity.--jacket. The Historical Side Of Aesthetics -- The Birth Of Aesthetics -- Art On The Offensive -- The Role Of Imagination -- Self-transcendence -- Desire's Ignorance -- Faust, Never Lost In Desire -- Desiring The Will -- The Despairing Will -- Art As The Organon Of Philosophy -- Real/ideal -- Salvific Intuition -- Myths Versus Mysticism -- After Schelling -- Prosaic Myths -- Art's Futurity -- The Necessity Of Art -- Philosophy As The Organon Of Art -- Sic Transit -- Hegel's Triptychs -- Beauty Surpassed -- The Ultimate Rationality -- Myths And The Symbol -- The Symbolic Sublime -- The Circle -- Art's New Truth -- Apprehending The New -- The Subject Transformed -- The Hidden Truth -- Philosophic Art And Aesthetics -- The Emerging Meaning -- The Function Of Art -- Neutrality -- Art As The Organon Of Art -- From Artifice To The Will -- Art Uprooted From Truth -- Nietzsche's Appearance -- Expected Tragedies -- Rhetoric First -- Being And Art: The Axis Nietzsche-heidegger -- Art: The Truth Of The Nonexistent -- The Sublimity Of Nihilism -- The Nothingness Of Art -- The Repercussions Of Nihilism -- Utopia And Nihilism: The Two Faces Of The Aesthetic -- Renouncing The Beautiful -- Unprecedented Form -- Metaphor -- Sublime Allegory -- The Aesthetics Of Negativity -- Subjective Aesthetics -- The Role Of Subjectivity -- Art: Imagining The True -- New Sensations -- Hermeneutics -- The Unconscious Subject -- The Ineffable -- Tragedy And Comedy -- Sublime Sublimity. Marcella Tarozzi Goldsmith. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 209-216) And Index. Draws upon a wide range of aesthetic theories and artworks in order to challenge the view that art is valueless or purely subjective.By analyzing the three loci of aesthetics—the subjective, the objective, and the absolute—the author concludes that only the sublime demonstrates that art is neither subjective nor objective. The one essential component of art is the new, the sole “instrument” that can guarantee art's vitality even when confronted by the nihilistic tendencies of modernity.Marcella Tarozzi Goldsmith, an independent scholar, is the author of Nonrepresentational Forms of the Comic: Humor, Irony, and Jokes. "By analyzing the three loci of aesthetics - the subjective, the objective, and the absolute - the author concludes that only the sublime demonstrates that art is neither subjective nor objective. The one essential component of art is the new, the sole "instrument" that can guarantee art's vitality even when confronted by the nihilistic tendencies of modernity."--BOOK JACKET.