AFTER THE BEAUTIFUL

In his Berlin lectures on fine art, Hegel argued that art involves a unique form of aesthetic intelligibility - the expression of a distinct collective self-understanding that develops through historical time. Hegel's approach to art has been influential in a numb er of different contexts, but in a twist of historical irony Hegel would die just before the most radical artistic revolution in his tory: modernism. In After the Beautiful, Robert B. Pippin, looking at modernist paintings by artists such as Edouard Manet and Paul Cezanne th...[Read more]