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Harry Redner's Aesthetic Life examines the arts - all the arts from the earliest Paleolithic painting to the latest post-Modern music. Its aim is to account for the nature of art in its historical totality and to assess the role it has played in human life throughout the ages. In seeking to review the history of art in all civilizations and separate cultures, this work is intensely aware of the critical state of the arts towards which this history seems to be heading. None of the great artistic cultures has survived intact as a living tradition. All have been more or less consigned to museums, the mausoleums of dead art. India, China, Japan, Byzantium, Persia, all the sources of the heritage of great art have dwindled away. The last of these, Europe, also faltered in the course of the twentieth century, which began with so much hope - it seemed for a while that the Modernist upsurge of rebellious energy was to be the first stage of a new culture. In the present anarchic age of post-Modernism, where "anything goes," it has become apparent that Modernism was merely the last stage of European culture. With all these great traditions gone, Aesthetic Life asks "What is to be done about art now?"-and considers possible answers.
Harry Redner is a scholar and author who has published books in many fields. He has taught at universities in Europe, Australia, and the U.S.A.
Part 1 IntroductionPart 2 Basic Aesthetic QualitiesChapter 3 The Aesthetic EthosChapter 4 Humour and BeautyChapter 5 Form and DesignPart 6 Mimesis and RepresentationChapter 7 Miming and ActingChapter 8 ImagesChapter 9 Pictorial RepresentationChapter 10 Literary RepresentationChapter 11 Poetry and TruthPart 12 ExpressionChapter 13 Dramatic ExpressionChapter 14 Musical ExpressionPart 15 History of Art or Artistic CultureChapter 16 IntroductionPart 17 Art, High Art, and Great ArtChapter 18 Art - the constitution of the work of artChapter 19 High Art - style, genre, and mannerChapter 20 Great art - universality and scopePart 21 Studies of the Great Art TraditionsChapter 22 Greece-Rome and China-JapanChapter 23 Byzantium, India, and PersiaPart 24 The Great Art Tradition of EuropeChapter 25 Gothic and ClassicalChapter 26 Modernity and ModernismPart 27 Critique of Judgement and Criticism of CriticismChapter 28 IntroductionPart 29 The Culture of CriticismChapter 30 The Rise of Modern CriticismChapter 31 Consensus in JudgementPart 32 The Nature of CriticismChapter 33 AnalysisChapter 34 InterpretationChapter 35 EvaluationPart 36 The Future of Criticism and ArtChapter 37 The Fall of Modern CriticismChapter 38 The End of Art? - a conclusion
