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The Dehumanization of Art and Other Essays on Art, Culture, and Literature

The Dehumanization of Art and Other Essays on Art, Culture, and Literature

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Series: Princeton Classics, Book 67

PhilosophyArt Criticism & TheoryLiterary Criticism

Publisher Price: $16.95

ISBN10: 0691197210
ISBN13: 9780691197210
Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr
Published: Oct 8 2019
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.45
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.40
Language: English

A classic work on radical aesthetics by one of the great philosophers of the early twentieth century

No work of philosopher and essayist José Ortega y Gasset has been more frequently cited, admired, or criticized than his response to modernism, The Dehumanization of Art. The essay, originally published in Spanish in 1925, grappled with the newness of nonrepresentational art and sought to make it more understandable to the public. Many embraced the essay as a manifesto extolling the virtues of vanguard artists and promoting efforts to abandon the realism and the romanticism of the nineteenth century. Others took it as a denunciation of everything that was radical about the avant-garde. This Princeton Classics edition makes this essential work, along with four of Ortega's other critical essays, available in English. A new foreword by Anthony J. Cascardi considers how Ortega's philosophy remains relevant and significant in the twenty-first century.

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