Aesthetics After Modernism

Diarmuid Costello is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Warwick. He is the author of On Photography: A Philosophical Inquiry (Routledge, 2018) and numerous articles and edited collections across aesthetics and art theory. He has particular interests in Kant and the philosophy of photography and contemporary art. He is a previous Chair of the British Society of Aesthetics, and a past recipient of the AHRC Major Research Award, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation 'Experienced Researcher' fellowship, and the Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellowship. His next book, a collection of stand-alone essays pairing individual artworks with particular philosophical concepts, models a new way of doing the philosophy of contemporary art.

• IntroductionPart I Greenberg's Modernist AestheticChapter 1: Modernism and Formalism: The Internal Structure of Greenbergian TheoryChapter 2: Modernism and Formalism: The Internal Limits of Greenbergian TheoryPart II The Legacy of Greenbergian TheoryChapter 3: The Afterlife of Medium-Specificity I: Fried on the 'Theatre' and 'Theatricality'Chapter 4: The Afterlife of Medium-Specificity II: Krauss on the 'Post-Medium Condition'Chapter 5: The Afterlife of Formalist Criticism I: de Duve on Judging 'This is art'Chapter 6: The Afterlife of Formalist Criticism II: Danto on the 'Aesthetics of Form'Part III Kant's Theory of Art ReconsideredChapter 7: Kant's Aesthetics and the Challenge of Conceptual ArtChapter 8: The Scope of Kant's Theory of ArtChapter 9: The Actuality of Kant's AestheticsIntroductionPart I Greenberg's Modernist AestheticChapter 1: Modernism and Formalism: The Internal Structure of Greenbergian TheoryChapter 2: Modernism and Formalism: The Internal Limits of Greenbergian TheoryPart II The Legacy of Greenbergian TheoryChapter 3: The Afterlife of Medium-Specificity I: Fried on the 'Theatre' and 'Theatricality'Chapter 4: The Afterlife of Medium-Specificity II: Krauss on the 'Post-Medium Condition'Chapter 5: The Afterlife of Formalist Criticism I: de Duve on Judging 'This is art'Chapter 6: The Afterlife of Formalist Criticism II: Danto on the 'Aesthetics of Form'Part III Kant's Theory of Art ReconsideredChapter 7: Kant's Aesthetics and the Challenge of Conceptual ArtChapter 8: The Scope of Kant's Theory of ArtChapter 9: The Actuality of Kant's Aesthetics