A Hunger for Aesthetics

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A Hunger for Aesthetics is written by Michael Kelly and published by Columbia University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0231152922 (ISBN 10) and 9780231152921 (ISBN 13).

This title examines the motivations for the critiques that have been applied to the idea of aesthetics and argues that theorists and artists now hunger for a new kind of aesthetics, one better calibrated to contemporary art and its moral and political demands. The book shows how, for decades, aesthetic critiques have often concerned art's treatment of beauty or the autonomy of art. Collectively, these critiques have generated an anti-aesthetic stance that is now prevalent in the contemporary art world.