A Theory Of Minimalism - 9781472530301

The minimalist explosion in the mid-twentieth century was an unprecedented phenomenon in aesthetic history – not only was the distinction between the everyday and the aesthetic decisively undermined, but for the first time in aesthetic history the materiality of the work was dislocated from its creator, and the significance of the work from its meaning. Persistence and Transfiguration is a transhistorical account of minimalism's genesis with an emphasis on the key concepts of persistence and transfiguration. Marc Botha develops a new and compelling formulation of minimalism through the concepts of quantity, mathematical and dynamical sublimity, and quantitative ontology in the works of philosophers from Parmenides through Kant and Hegel to Badiou. More than just a work about minimalism, this is a highly innovative contribution to aesthetics, critical theory and current debates around the ontology of art in general.

• | Author: Marc Botha
• | Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• | Publication Date: Oct 19, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 304 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/Philosophy
• | ISBN-10: 1472530306
• | ISBN-13: 9781472530301