At the end of the 20th century, after several years of the prominence of cultural discourses
which approach art as one of the many various sectors of cultural activity, it is becoming …

If at present nothing is self-evident about art, as Adorno remarks in the first sentence of
Aesthetic Theory, 1 then art has perhaps become a preeminent locus of questioning, a site …

Heidegger and the Work of Art History explores the impact and future possibilities of
Heidegger? s philosophy for art history and visual culture in the twenty-first century. Scholars …

In the 'Addendum'to 'The Origin of the Work of Art', Heidegger tells us that art belongs to
'appropriation'. 2 It is apt that in the years leading up to the publication of this revised version …

In recent years there has been a great deal of talk about a possible death of art. As the title of
Heidegger's “The Origin of the Work of Art” suggests, the essay challenges such talk, just as …

This paper juxtaposes elements from Heidegger's 1936 paper,'The Origin of the Art Work",
with his critique of aesthetics, as outlined in the 1938 paper," The Age of the World Picture" …

IN 1950, MARTIN HEIDEGGER published an essay in his work Holzwege, entitled" Der
Ursprung des Kuntswerkes," or" The Origin of the Work of Art." Based upon lectures …

Reflections upon works of art occupy a prominent place in Heidegger's writings from the
1930s onward. Heidegger's deep appreciation of and sustained interest in art manifested …

In this paper, I advance a new interpretation of Heidegger's reflections on art as we find them
in his essay,'The Origin of the Work of Art'. I begin, in Section 1, by uncovering the …

This book finds Heidegger's Aristotle interpretation integral to his idea of leading
metaphysics back to its own presuppositions, and his reflection on art as necessitating a …