Jean Fautrier, one of France's most important interwar and postwar artists, is perhaps best known for the Otages, his series of abstract paintings featuring partially obliterated or disfigured faces-victims of Nazi atrocities in France during World War II. This landmark book, the first English-language publication on Fautrier, discusses his significance to the history of avant-garde and modern art. 
Essays examine Fautrier's early work of 1926-28 in relation to art informel; analyze the formal and social aspects of the Otages paintings; consider Fautrier's Originaux multiples of 1950, a radical series of original reproductions that questions modernist notions of the unique art object; and discuss the influence of American abstract expressionism on his late work. The book also includes contemporary critical essays on Fautrier written by leading French literary figures, including André Malraux, Jean Paulhan, and Francis Ponge as well as a group of translated letters, many never before published, sent by Fautrier to Malraux and Paulhan. 
This important book accompanies an exhibition jointly organized by and on view at the Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University, from September 19 to December 29, 2002; the Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, from January 28 to March 29, 2003; and the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, from April 26 to July 20, 2003.

Jean Fautrier, 1898-1964

Arts & Photography

Curtis L. Carter

Karen K. Butler

History & Criticism

Harvard Art Museums/Yale University Press

Exhibition catalogue. 11x9" oblong, 67 pp., b&amp;w photographs, paintings illustrated in color.

Railroads and the American Industrial Landscape: Ted Rose Paintings and Photographs

Jeff Brouws

Haggerty Museum, Marquette University

As a new trend in aesthetics appearing concurrently in the West and the East in the last ten years, the aesthetics of everyday life points to a growing diversification among existing methodologies for pursuing aesthetics, alongside the shift from art-based aesthetics. The cultural diversity manifest in global aesthetics offers common ground for the collaborative efforts of aesthetics in both the West and the East. Given the rapidly growing interest and its potential for attracting new audiences extending beyond the more narrowly focused traditions of twentieth-century analytic and environmental aesthetics, it stands to command its own share of attention in the future of aesthetic studies. The aesthetics of everyday life has become a stream of thought with a global ambition. This interest has led to numerous systematic and in-depth works on this topics, some of which were conducted by the authors represented in this volume. A salient feature of this book is that it not only represents the recent developments of the aesthetics of everyday life in the West, but also highlights the interaction between scholars in the West and the East on this topic. Thus, the project is a contribution toward mutual progress in the collaboration between Western and Eastern aesthetics. What distinguishes this book from other anthologies and monographs on this topic is that it reconstructs the aesthetics of everyday life through cultural dialogue between the West and the East, with a view to building a new form of aesthetics of everyday life, as seen from a global perspective. At present, the aesthetics of everyday life as a newly emergent approach to aesthetics may encounter skepticism among aestheticians accustomed to the rigors of analytic philosophers who prefer to discuss aesthetics at the level of abstract concepts and argument, and who tolerate the particulars of experience mainly as illustrations. But, there is no reason to abandon the pursuit of the aesthetics of everyday life in the face of such objections. On the contrary, there are many benefits to gain in bringing aesthetics to bear on a wider sphere of human life, made possible through efforts to show the relevance of aesthetics to a broader range of human actions.

Aesthetics of Everyday Life: East and West

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Unsettled Boundaries: Philosophy, Art, Ethics East/West represents contemporary reflections of Chinese and Western philosophers who explore issues of common interest in aesthetics focused on interrelations of philosophy, art and ethics East/West. Chinese authors including Peng Feng, Gao Jianping, Wang Chunchen connect in-depth knowledge of western philosophical aesthetics to grounding in their own Chinese traditions. Western aestheticians including Noel Carroll, Stephen Davies, Richard Shusterman, coming from the opposite direction, explore common ground between western and eastern aesthetics and art practices. Collection of essays by Noel Carroll, Cheng Xiangzhan, Stephen Davies, Peng Feng, Garry Hagberg, Liu Yuedi, Richard Shusterman, Wang Chunchen, Jason Wirth, and Mary Wiseman.

Unsettled Boundaries: Philosophy, Art, Ethics East/West (Marquette Studies in Philosophy)

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Marquette Univ Pr

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