Explores ideas and concepts related to modern art and provides overviews of the most important critics and historians that shaped and influenced the progression of art. Covers Modern Art, Postmodernism, Formalism, Existentialism, Medium Purity, Flatness and Art for Art's Sake.

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The notion of “the aesthetic” is a concept from the philosophy of art of the 18th century according to which the perception of beauty occurs by means of a special process distinct from the appraisal of ordinary objects. Hence, our appreciation of a sublime painting is presumed to be cognitively dist

According to Taine, "The production of a work of art is determined by the material and intellectual climate in which a man lives and dies". His philosophy of art revolved around one central problem, the problem of the relation of history to values. The question is whether we can reconcile

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The traditional form of art criticism was biographical and sociological, taking into account the conceptions of the artist and the history of the traditions within which the artist worked. But in the twentieth century a different, more scientific and ahistorical form of literary criticism grew up in

Through sociological observation it is possible to reveal, effectively realized, forms of perception corresponding to the different levels which theoretical analysis frames by an abstract distinction.