Aesthetic Thinking

Aesthetic ThinkingFred Orton's teaching and writing has always combined theoretical and formal which is to say structural analysis with historical research and reflection. This collection of essays brings together some of his most decisive contributions to thinking about fine art practice and rethinking the theory and methods of the social history of art. In this collection Orton brilliantly moves from Paul Cezanne to Jasper Johns, from the American cultural critic

Gehlens Topos der Kommentarbedürftigkeit der Avantgarde

Genus and species accounts include diagnostic descriptions

which had the outcome of simultaneously dispossessing Indigenous Brazilians of their land and furthering the expansion of Japanese land and resource possession abroad

and sustainable farming

in numerous dramatic festivals

Drawing on rigorous scientific studies

it identifies and highlights the specific ways of speaking of China and Hong Kong - their concepts

Palästinenser berichten dagegen von verschiedenen Formen der Zensur

The institutional structures of white supremacy—slavery

Beide Positionen stehen nicht in Widerstreit zueinander

This book is about those very few women

Undocumented Politics offers a gripping inquiry into migrant communities’ struggles for rights and resources across the U