1st Edition
What Does ‘Art’ Mean Now? The Personal After the Age of Romanticism and Modernism
Part I THEORY
1 Esthetics Beyond Esthetics: The Demise of the Separated Artwork
2 A Definition of Art for Our Times: Personal/Impersonal, Impersonal/Personal
3 Correcting Modernism: Putting the Subjective Back In
4 Nailing the Problem a Century Ago: Dewey’s Art as Experience
5 Our Situation Now: Blurring the Line Between Art and the World
Part II MUSEUMS
6 Audience and Survival: Two Aspects That Define Art
7 Principles of Ordering the Separated Artwork: Museums and Collections
8 Unconventional Ordering: Ripley’s "Believe it—OR NOT!"
9 What Counts as an Artwork: The Small Hard Things of the Bactrian Hoard
10 Do Museums Come to Life at Night?: The Revenge of the Separated Work
Part III LITERATURE
11 What’s Literature Good For?: Mirroring/Escape and Explanation/Vaccination
12 It Isn’t Fake Anything: Literature and the World
13 Problems with Literature
Who’s the Work For?
What Does the Audience Know?
Inside/Outside: Villette
When We Just Don’t Like a Work
Works Cited
Biography
Bruce Fleming is the author of over 20 books, and of a novel, essays, short stories, dance criticism, and poetry. Some of these books include four previous works for Routledge, such as The End of the Age of Modernism in Arts and Academia and Masculinity from the Inside: Gender Theory’s Missing Piece. He has taught at the University of Freiburg, Germany, the National University of Rwanda, and the University of Hyderabad, India. Since 1987, he has been an English professor at the US Naval Academy, Annapolis.
