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A Philosophy of Cultural Scenes in Art and Popular Culture

104 Pages

by Routledge

104 Pages

by Routledge

104 Pages

by Routledge

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This book seeks to understand culture through the lens of scenes, analyzing them aesthetically and culturally as well as understanding them through the frameworks of gender, social networks, and artworlds. It is common to talk about the cultural and intellectual scenes of early twentieth-century Vienna, the visual art scene of postwar New York, and the music and fashion scene of the swinging... Read more

1. Three Giants: Vivienne Westwood, Roman Jakobson and René Magritte, and their vertical and horizontal travels through scenes 2. Sketching Out the Structure of the Scenes 3. The Scene-Driven Art Theories of Danto and Sontag – and the Urban Thinking of the Twentieth-Century Philosophers 4. If Beale Street Could Talk like Greenwich Village: Scenes, Class, Ethnicity and Some Notes on Contemporary Urban Studies Through Scenes 5. Aesthetics of the Scenes 6. Film Scenes: Professionals, Institutionally Homeless Filmmakers, and Film Enthusiasts