Il mio saggio: "“Prodromi inglesi di un’estetica regionalista”, pp. 105-125 sottopone ad esame i tratti caratterizzanti dell'estetica antica (unitaria e olistica) e quelli dell'estetica moderna (particolarista). This essay examines how the still Platonist, eighteenth-century aesthetics, based on universal conceptions of perfection and beauty, was dismantled in favour of an aesthetics of the particular. What emerged instead were various and competing styles, leading eventually to the recovery of the gothic, the emergence of the picturesque, of garden aesthetics (Italian, French, English), and the progressive affirmation of regional and national types - not yet unique or individual - at the expense of 'universal' man. It can thus be considered as an analysis of the passage from a holistic theory of aesthetics to the modern conception of beauty as a relativistic, regional and space-specific 'style'.
Prodromi inglesi di un’estetica regionalista
BEZRUCKA, Yvonne
1999-01-01
Abstract
Il mio saggio: "“Prodromi inglesi di un’estetica regionalista”, pp. 105-125 sottopone ad esame i tratti caratterizzanti dell'estetica antica (unitaria e olistica) e quelli dell'estetica moderna (particolarista). This essay examines how the still Platonist, eighteenth-century aesthetics, based on universal conceptions of perfection and beauty, was dismantled in favour of an aesthetics of the particular. What emerged instead were various and competing styles, leading eventually to the recovery of the gothic, the emergence of the picturesque, of garden aesthetics (Italian, French, English), and the progressive affirmation of regional and national types - not yet unique or individual - at the expense of 'universal' man. It can thus be considered as an analysis of the passage from a holistic theory of aesthetics to the modern conception of beauty as a relativistic, regional and space-specific 'style'.
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