The Dehumanization Of Art: And Other Writings On Art And Culture
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At the dawn of modernism, José Ortega y Gasset issued a provocation that would reshape the intellectual landscape of 20th-century aesthetics: that the avant-garde movement was not a corruption of art, but a radical and necessary rupture from the human-centred traditions of the past. The Dehumanization of Art presents the Spanish philosopher's landmark 1925 essay alongside a collection of companion pieces, all of which argue with brilliant clarity that modern art's deliberate turn away from the familiar and the emotional is a defining civilizational act — a conscious rejection of sentimentality in favour of pure aesthetic form. Ortega y Gasset writes with the incisive authority of a cultural diagnostician, dissecting the gulf between the artistic elite and the mass public with elegant precision. His prose, at once polemical and luminous, illuminates themes of artistic elitism, cultural evolution, and the sociology of taste — ideas that remain startlingly relevant in an age of perpetual aesthetic debate. Collected here with essays on Velázquez, Goya, and the nature of the novel, this volume stands as an indispensable cornerstone of modern art criticism. Whether one ultimately agrees with his thesis or not, Ortega y Gasset's argument is impossible to put down — or to forget.
Author: Ortega Y Gasset
Format: Paperback
Genre: The arts
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
At the dawn of modernism, José Ortega y Gasset issued a provocation that would reshape the intellectual landscape of 20th-century aesthetics: that the avant-garde movement was not a corruption of art, but a radical and necessary rupture from the human-centred traditions of the past. The Dehumanization of Art presents the Spanish philosopher's landmark 1925 essay alongside a collection of companion pieces, all of which argue with brilliant clarity that modern art's deliberate turn away from the familiar and the emotional is a defining civilizational act — a conscious rejection of sentimentality in favour of pure aesthetic form. Ortega y Gasset writes with the incisive authority of a cultural diagnostician, dissecting the gulf between the artistic elite and the mass public with elegant precision. His prose, at once polemical and luminous, illuminates themes of artistic elitism, cultural evolution, and the sociology of taste — ideas that remain startlingly relevant in an age of perpetual aesthetic debate. Collected here with essays on Velázquez, Goya, and the nature of the novel, this volume stands as an indispensable cornerstone of modern art criticism. Whether one ultimately agrees with his thesis or not, Ortega y Gasset's argument is impossible to put down — or to forget.