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Uncontrollable Beauty
Toward a New Aesthetics
Edited by Bill Beckley with David Shapiro
Now in paperback! In this acclaimed art anthology, a prestigious group of artists, critics, and literati offer their incisive reflections on the questions of beauty -- past, present, and future -- how it has become a domain of multiple perspectives.
Here is Meyer Schapiro’s skeptical argument on perfection . . . contributions from artists as profound as Louise Bourgeois and Agnes Martin . . . and reflections of critics, curators, and philosophers on the problems of beauty and relativism.
Readers will find fascinating insights from such art theorists and critics as Dave Hickey, Jeremy Gilbert -Rolfe, Donald Kuspit, Carter Ratcliff, and dozens more. For all art lovers, this is an unmatched and essential resource.
“Many of the writings offer beauty a fresh face, casting it as a healing, personal, unpredictable, ungovernable experience.”—The New York Times. |
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Reviews
“The essays collected in Sticky Sublime will re-establish the importance of the sublime. This magnificent book shows that serious historical reflection can guide and inspire present-day debate about the values of art.”
—David Carrier, author of The Aesthetics of Comics and 1999–2000 Getty Scholar
“Sticky Sublime is the companion volume to the critically acclaimed Uncontrollable Beauty, the inaugural anthology of the Aesthetics Today series, copublished by Allworth Press and the School of Visual Arts. Here’s what critics are saying about this new vision of beauty:
“Uncontrollable Beauty seeks to examine the changing role of beauty in the twentieth century and give beauty a kind of critical makeover . . . Thus, while turning to Kant, Freud, John Ruskin, and even Dr. Seuss for inspiration, many of the writings offer beauty a fresh face, casting it as a healing, personal, unpredictable, ungovernable experience."
—New York Times
“Artists are rebelling against the visual starkness and political agendas of art of the recent past, and are growing increasingly unafraid to discuss their work with words like “vibrancy,” “lushness,” even “glamour.” For them, beauty is definitely back in style . . . Many of today’s most articulate defenders of beauty are people like Hickey, Beckley, Schjeldahl. They reject what they call the strain of intolerance and aesthetic “puritanism” running through the art world.”
—Christian Science Monitor
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