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Neither art nor philosophy was kind to beauty during the twentieth century. Much modern art disdains beauty, and many philosophers deeply suspect that beauty merely paints over or distracts us from horrors. Intellectuals consigned the passions of beauty to the margins, replacing them with the anemic and rarefied alternative, "aesthetic pleasure." In 'Only a Promise of Happiness', Alexander Nehamas reclaims beauty from its critics. He seeks to restore its place in art, to reestablish the connections among art, beauty, and desire, and to show that the values of art, independently of their moral worth, are equally crucial to the rest of life. Nehamas makes his case with characteristic grace, sensitivity, and philosophical depth, supporting his arguments with searching studies of art and literature, high and low, from Thomas 'Mann's Death in Venice' and Manet's 'Olympia' to television. Throughout, the discussion of artworks is generously illustrated. Beauty, Nehamas concludes, may depend on appearance, but this does not make it superficial. The perception of beauty manifests a hope that life would be better if the object of beauty were part of it. This hope can shape and direct our lives for better or worse. We may discover misery in pursuit of beauty, or find that beauty offers no more than a tantalizing promise of happiness. But if beauty is always dangerous, it is also a pressing human concern that we must seek to understand, and not suppress.

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"L’exposition Giorgio de Chirico. La peinture métaphysique au musée de l'Orangerie, du 16 septembre au 14 décembre 2020, retrace le parcours et les influences artistiques et philosophiques qui ont nourri l’artiste Giorgio de Chirico de Munich à Turin, puis à Paris où il découvre les avant-gardes picturales de son temps et enfin à Ferrare. De manière inédite, seront mis en lumière les liens du peintre, découvert par Apollinaire puis soutenu par le marchand Paul Guillaume, avec les cercles culturels et littéraires parisiens. Né en Grèce et formé dans le creuset de la culture classique et du romantisme allemand tardif, De Chirico développe les fondements d’une nouvelle conception artistique aux côtés de son frère cadet Alberto Savinio. Elève à l’Académie des Beaux-Arts de Munich à partir de 1908, il découvre la pensée de Nietzsche et Schopenhauer ainsi que les oeuvres de Böcklin et de Klinger. Après un passage à Milan puis Florence, c’est cependant depuis la France, à Paris dès l’automne 1911, qu’il met en place un vocabulaire plastique singulier au contact des révolutions picturales modernistes. Il est très vite remarqué par certaines personnalités artistiques de son temps. Guillaume Apollinaire, Maurice Raynal et André Salmon, mais aussi André Breton, Paul Éluard, Jean Paulhan, sont parmi les premiers à s’intéresser à son œuvre et à la promouvoir. L’exposition trouve ainsi toute sa place au musée de l’Orangerie autour de la figure de Paul Guillaume qui fut le tout premier marchand de Giorgio de Chirico. De retour en Italie en 1915, il est envoyé avec son frère Savinio à Ferrare pour des raisons militaires et y poursuit ses recherches picturales. La période ferraraise (juin 1915-décembre 1918) est l’occasion pour les peintres Carlo Carrà et Giorgio Morandi de fréquenter les deux frères permettant ainsi la formation de ce que l’on qualifiera plus tard d’"école métaphysique" et sur laquelle se clôt l’exposition."

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Mimesis is one of the oldest, most fundamental concepts in Western aesthetics. This book offers a new, searching treatment of its long history at the center of theories of representational art: above all, in the highly influential writings of Plato and Aristotle, but also in later Greco-Roman philosophy and criticism, and subsequently in many areas of aesthetic controversy from the Renaissance to the twentieth century. Combining classical scholarship, philosophical analysis, and the history of ideas--and ranging across discussion of poetry, painting, and music--Stephen Halliwell shows with a wealth of detail how mimesis, at all stages of its evolution, has been a more complex, variable concept than its conventional translation of "imitation" can now convey. Far from providing a static model of artistic representation, mimesis has generated many different models of art, encompassing a spectrum of positions from realism to idealism. Under the influence of Platonist and Aristotelian paradigms, mimesis has been a crux of debate between proponents of what Halliwell calls "world-reflecting" and "world-simulating" theories of representation in both the visual and musico-poetic arts. This debate is about not only the fraught relationship between art and reality but also the psychology and ethics of how we experience and are affected by mimetic art. Moving expertly between ancient and modern traditions, Halliwell contends that the history of mimesis hinges on problems that continue to be of urgent concern for contemporary aesthetics.

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