Art in its Time: Theories and Practices of Modern Aesthetics

PREFACE
versions of the essays collected here. Chapter 2 was originally given as a lecture
to the Department of Art, College of William and Mary. Chapter 3 appeared in
Paul Mattick (ed.), Eighteenth-Century Aesthetics and the Reconstruction of Art (Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1993). Portions of Chapter 4 formed an
essay included in Peggy Brand and Carolyn Korsmeyer (eds), Feminism and Tradition
in Aesthetics (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1995). A
German version of Chapter 5, “Kunst im Zeitalter der Rationalisierung,” was
included in Brigitte Aulenbacher and Tilla Siegel (eds), Diese Welt wird völlig anders
sein. Denkmuster der Rationalisierung (Pfaffenweiler: Centaurus, 1995). An early version
of Chapter 6 appeared in the September 1990 issue of Arts magazine, now
sadly no more. Chapter 7 came into existence as a talk commissioned by Grantmakers
in the Arts for their 1993 annual conference; an edited version appeared
in Andrew Patner (ed.), Alternative Futures: Challenging Designs for Arts Philanthropy
(Washington: Grantmakers in the Arts, 1994). An ancestor of Chapter 8, “Aesthetics
and anti-aesthetics in the visual arts,” was included in the Journal of
Aesthetics and Art Criticism 51:2 (1993). Chapter 9 appeared in Critical Inquiry 24
(1998). Chapter 10 was first given as a lecture in the Fordham University Fine
Arts Lecture Series, 1998, and Chapter 11 began as a paper read at the 1999
annual meeting of the American Society for Aesthetics.
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