Jennifer Grossman invited contemporary artist Michael Newberry and me to talk about great art. Topics: * Rembrandt’s mesmerizing of the young Newberry. * The sublime in Burke and Kant. * Aristotle’s grounding of art and Rand’s updating. * Icarus Landing (2001). * Envy and destruction in some strains of modern and postmodern art. * The […]
In this article, Newberry discusses Kant’s theory of the sublime and contrasts it to Aristotle’s and Rand’s aesthetic theories, along the way using modernists and postmodernists such as Duchamp, Manzoni, Hatoum, and Creed as examples, and then giving an extended review of Start Mark Feldman’s The Future in Our Hands sculpture group. Pandora’s Box: The
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In my Kant and Modern Art post, I quoted eight varied big-name contemporary thinkers — Danto and Dutton and Rand and Scruton and others — who identify Immanuel Kant as the key philosopher in explaining the transition to modernism in art. Here are two more I came across recently: Jean-François Lyotard, leading postmodern thinker: “It
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