{"title":"David Roberts","description":"David Roberts is Professor Emeritus of German at Monash University. He is the author of Art and Enlightenment, and coauthor of Dialectic of Romanticism, and A Critique of Modernism, among many other books.","products":[{"product_id":"the-total-work-of-art-in-european-modernism-paperback","title":"The Total Work of Art in European Modernism - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn this groundbreaking book David Roberts sets out to demonstrate the centrality of the total work of art to European modernism since the French Revolution. \u003c\/b\u003eThe total work of art is usually understood as the intention to reunite the arts into the one integrated whole, but it is also tied from the beginning to the desire to recover and renew the public function of art. The synthesis of the arts in the service of social and cultural regeneration was a particularly German dream, which made Wagner and Nietzsche the other center of aesthetic modernism alongside Baudelaire and Mallarmé. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe history and theory of the total work of art pose a whole series of questions not only to aesthetic modernism and its utopias but also to the whole epoch from the French Revolution to the totalitarian revolutions of the twentieth century. The total work of art indicates the need to revisit key assumptions of modernism, such as the foregrounding of the autonomy and separation of the arts at the expense of the countertendencies to the reunion of the arts, and cuts across the neat equation of avant-gardism with progress and deconstructs the familiar left-right divide between revolution and reaction, the modern and the antimodern. Situated at the interface between art, religion, and politics, the total work of art invites us to rethink the relationship between art and religion and art and politics in European modernism. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a major departure from the existing literature David Roberts argues for twin lineages of the total work, a French revolutionary and a German aesthetic, which interrelate across the whole epoch of European modernism, culminating in the aesthetic and political radicalism of the avant-garde movements in response to the crisis of autonomous art and the accelerating political crisis of European societies from the 1890s forward.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50122741088479,"sku":"9780801450235","price":93.51,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/aInHltkY5b9780801450235.webp?v=1781662759"},{"product_id":"art-and-enlightenment-aesthetic-theory-after-adorno-paperback","title":"Art and Enlightenment: Aesthetic Theory After Adorno - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe crisis of tradition early in the twentieth century--signaled by the collapse of perspective in painting and tonality in music and evident in the explosive ferment of the avant-garde movements--opened a new stage of modern art, which aesthetic theory is still struggling to comprehend. David Roberts situates the current aesthetic and cultural debates in a wider historical frame which extends from Hegel and the German Romantics to Lukács and Adorno, Benjamin and Baudrillard. \u003ci\u003eArt and Enlightenment: Aesthetic Theory after Adorno\u003c\/i\u003e is the first detailed analysis in English of Theodor Adorno's seminal Philosophy of Modern Music, which can be seen as a turning point between modern and postmodern art and theory. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAdorno's diagnosis of the crisis of modernist values points back to Hegel's thesis of the end of art and also forward to the postmodernist debate. Thus the paradoxes of Adorno's negative aesthetics return to haunt the current discussion by representatives of the second generation of the Frankfurt School, Anglo-American Marxism, and French poststructuralism. Going beyond Adorno's dialectic of musical enlighten-ment, Roberts proposes an alternative model of the enlightenment, of art applied to literature and exemplified in the outline of a theory of parody. In its critique of Adorno, \u003ci\u003eArt and Enlightenment\u003c\/i\u003e clears the way for a reconsideration of twentieth-century artistic theory and practice and also, in offering a model of postmodern art, seeks to disentangle critical issues in the discussion of the avant-garde, modernism, and postmodernism.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50122795548895,"sku":"9780803290105","price":48.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/jgqGQtCey09780803290105.webp?v=1781665425"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/david-roberts.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}