The Hedgehog Review articles from June 2004

The Hedgehog Review archives from June 2004

The fate of the arts.
June 22, 2004... Today the arts--both high and popular--are as ubiquitous as ever. Interestingly, just as ubiquitous is a confusion about the nature and meaning of art. There is a long history that has led to this moment. In the late nineteenth and early...

The fate of the arts.(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... In my book The Ideology of the Aesthetic, (1) I argue that in the age of Enlightenment, when the very notion of the aesthetic was first invented, the work of art served three social purposes. First, it represented a unity of the sensuous and...

A mirror or a lamp?(Critical Essay)
June 22, 2004... Nous sommes dans un temps ou les hommes, pousses par de mediocres et feroces ideologies, s'habituent a avoir honte de tout. Honte d'eux- memes, honte d'etre heureux, d'aimer ou de creer. Un temps ou Racine rougirait de Berenice et ou...

The end of art as its future.
June 22, 2004... "The avant-garde is no longer in art. It is in genetics." --Orlan (1) "... mass art does not belong to a culture, defined as that through which and in which human beings are linked to a community of language, history, and communal...

Is art salvific?
June 22, 2004... Late in his career the eminent analytic philosopher of art, Monroe Beardsley, a person who avoided overstatement and hyperbole in his writing as if they were mortal sins, published these words: The fundamental task of the philosophy...

The corrosive incoherence of the U.S. arts system.
June 22, 2004... When I began to think about the topic of this issue, "The Fate of the Arts," I asked myself two questions: What is meant by "fate" and what is contained within "the arts"? The dictionary provides two different notions of "fate." First, fate...

Beyond the disciplines: art without boundaries.
June 22, 2004... Several decades ago, when I first began writing Has Modernism Failed?, I felt compelled to explore the relevance of spiritual and moral values in a society oriented around manic production, maximum energy flow, and a fixation with...

A response to "the fate of the arts".
June 22, 2004... We cannot assume we know what we're talking about when we discuss "The Fate of the Arts," this urgent but portentous subject that strains critical discourse. Consider first how the singular "Fate" and the plural "Arts" already set up a...

An interview with artist Makoto Fujimura.(Interview)(Interview)
June 22, 2004... You use an ancient Japanese technique, Nihonga, in your painting. Could you describe it? Why have you chosen to paint in this ancient style? I studied in Japan (my roots are there, but I was born in Boston) from 1986-1992 under the...

At Home with Art.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Painter, Colin. At Home with Art. London: Hayward Gallery, 1999. Painter, Colin, ed. Contemporary Art and the Home. Oxford: Berg, 2002. A few months before the Tate Modern Museum opened in London in the converted Bankside Power...

Art History after Modernism.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
June 22, 2004... Belting, Hans. Art History after Modernism. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2003. These days, in order for art to catch the attention of anyone outside of a narrowly defined elite subculture, it seems there has to be some...

Art and contemporary culture.(Bibliographic Review)
June 22, 2004... The phrase "The fate of..." often suggests fear about the topic in question, without committing to it. Fears about the fate of the arts in contemporary society include the possibility of the death of art, or the loss of art's meaning and...