Art and Its Shadow.

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword: Perniola's Postmodern Shadows -- Introduction -- 1 Idiocy and Splendour in Current Art -- 1 The 'shock' of the Real -- 2 Idiocy of Today's Realism -- 3 Splendour of Today's Realism -- 2 Feeling the Difference -- 1 Aesthetics and Difference -- 2 Bliss and Text -- 3 The 'Epoché' and the Neuter -- 4 Two Versions of the 'Sex Appeal' of the Inorganic -- 5 Psychotic Realism -- 6 Toward the Extremely Beautiful -- 3 Warhol and the Postmodern -- 1 The Postmodern Dissensus -- 2 Warhol's Cynicism -- 3 Sexuality, Suffering and Genetics -- 4 Towards a Philosophical Cinema -- 1 A Visual Philosophy? -- 2 The Library of Images Not Seen -- 3 Is It Fair to Punish Horizontal Collaborators? -- 4 Iconoclastic Undinism -- 5 Deafness and Estrangement -- 5 The Third System of Art -- 1 Art without Aura, Criticism without Theory -- 2 On the Credibility of Art and the Uniqueness of the Artist -- 3 Beyond the Aura and Mechanical Reproduction -- 4 Modern and Contemporary Paradigms -- 5 The Heroic-Ironic Role of Art and Philosophy -- 6 Greatness, Justification, Compromise -- 6 Art and Remainder -- 1 Philosophy and the Other Arts -- 2 Situationist's Anti-Art and the Event -- 3 Conceptual Art and the Non-Identity of Art -- 4 Art as Crypt -- Notes -- Mario Perniola's Books in English -- Index of Names -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Z.

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