Defaced Statues
Idealism and Iconoclasm in Hegel's Aesthetics
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4300210 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rebecca Comay (REBECCA COMAY, a professor of philosophy and comparative literature at the University of Toronto, is the author of Mourning Sickness: Hegel and the French Revolution (Stanford, 2011), among other books., corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 149 |
| Pages | 123-142 |
| Publication date | 2014-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | October (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0162-2870 • E-ISSN: 1536-013X |
| Publisher | MIT Press - Journals (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1162/octo_a_00186 |
| OpenAlex | W2004318715 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 1 |
There is a wild iconoclasm that smashes statues, gouges out eyes, and uses the debris to build new, better, bigger monuments. There is a gentler iconoclasm that sees beauty in rubble, and finds in the spectacle of dereliction the consoling reassurance that life carries on. There is a more muted kind of iconoclasm that embalms and catalogues the pieces. In the museum, the things can be divested of their magic and put out of circulation while still being appreciated as fine art. A yet more furtive iconoclasm breaks the spell of this enjoyment by turning this pleasure to subtle profit. The museum becomes a warehouse of examples that can be scrutinized as a vehicle of philosophical truth
Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Epistemology · Etiquette · Hegelianism · Iconoclasm · Pleasure · Spectacle · Critical Theory and Philosophy · Law · Philosophy · Political Economy and Marxism · Political Theology and Sovereignty · Psychology
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |