TY  - BOOK
AU  - Elias,Willem
TI  - Signs of the Time
T2  - Lier & Boog
SN  - 9789042001121
AV  - N70 
U1  - 701.17 23
PY  - 1997///
CY  - Leiden, Boston
PB  - Brill
KW  - Aesthetics, Modern
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Art
KW  - Philosophy
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Preliminary Material; Willem Elias -- Introduction; Willem Elias -- 1. Art and the Individual; Willem Elias -- 2. Art and Society; Willem Elias -- 3. Analytic Philosophy; Willem Elias -- 4. Existential Phenomenology and Hermeneutics; Willem Elias -- 5. Structuralism and Semiotics; Willem Elias -- 6. Postscript: The Postmodernism Debate; Willem Elias -- Sources; Willem Elias -- Higher Institute for Fine Arts - Flanders; Willem Elias
N2  - Signs of the Time is an investigation into contemporary art theory and the philosophy of art from 1945 till postmodernism. The author treats important precursors such as Freud and Marx, and contemporary theorists and philosophers such as Gombrich, Lacan, Heidegger, Sartre, Althusser, Marcuse, Gadamer, Derrida, Eco, Barthes, Foucault, Baudrillard, and Lyotard. Various texts are discussed, criticized and related to movements in contemporary art and to contemporary artists. The author addresses students in the field of art history, communica-tions, aesthetics, art education, art history, communications, aesthetics, as well as the art lover. Art as a sign of the time reveals the hidden dimensions of the world in which we live.
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789401200172
ER  -