Only Connect 1 Pleasure Ground
ONLY CONNECT 1 PLEASURE GROUND ONLY CONNECT 2 five exercises in aesthetics Christophe Van Eecke Lokaal 01 ‘Verweile doch! Du bist so schön’ Goethe, Faust, Part I 4 5 ‘Once I could speak joyfully of beautiful things, thinking to be understood; – now I cannot anymore; for it seems to me that no one regards them. Wherever I look or travel in England or abroad, I see that men, wherever they can reach, destroy all beauty.’ John Ruskin TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction, 9 Chapter One: Better Living Through Art Chapter Four: Engaging The World War and Resentment, 24 Making the World, 289 The Power of Vision, 34 Unmaking the World, 299 Divine Substance, 39 The Brutality of Fact, 304 The Therapeutic Fallacy, 43 The Quickening, 312 Narrative Didactics, 47 The Order of Things, 321 Feeling and Form, 56 Dionysian Mysteries, 329 Virtual Spaces, 70 Cleansing Cleanliness, 339 Fields of Vision, 80 Irreligious Rituals, 348 Virtual Life, 90 Lost in the Stars: A Materialist Manifesto, 354 Against Form, 98 Demonic Time, 357 Genius Redeemed, 104 Comes Undone, 364 Inventing the Human, 109 Chapter Five: Frail Gazing Chapter Two: Artworld Inc. Pathetic Fallacies, 371 6 Art Criticism After the End of Art, 122 Having the World, 378 7 Skirting Langer, 131 Doubling, 386 A Short History of the Avant-Garde, 140 Body Doubles, 389 Kondylian Combinations, 145 Pictures Imperfect, 392 Art and Philosophy, 154 Scattergorising the World, 404 Beauty and Ugliness, 163 Optics of Desire, 410 Killing Art, 169 Imagining Petals, 416 Avant-Garde After the End of Avant-Garde, 177 Living
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