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Ernesto
L. Francalanci
Estetica degli oggetti
The Aesthetics of Objects
2006, 238 pages
This is
the 18th volume in the "Aesthetics Lexicon" series
inaugurated in 1995 under the direction of Remo Bodei. The
series includes three sections respectively dedicated to the
arts, the history of aesthetics, and its key concepts. This
new entry on the aesthetics of objects is part of the section
on the arts, which already includes volumes by Fubini on music,
Masiero on architecture, and Pezzella on motion pictures.
In a world
that has become a huge experiment in product placement, objects
and things - not unlike phenomena and events - increasingly
tend to resemble each other in a diffuse aesthetic dimension,
in which content-rich values, typical of modernity, are progressively
replaced by formal and showy elements, characteristic of post-modern
ideology. By drawing philosophy away from the abstract and
closer to the concrete, the author analyses a selection of
familiar objects from everyday life - a chair, a table, a
window - and highlights post-modernity's responsibility in
the transformation - not only in perceptual, but also political
and ideal terms - of our relationship with reality.
Ernesto
L. Francalanci
teaches History of Contemporary Art at the University Institute
of Architecture in Venice.
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