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Art, Criticism and Laughter: Terry Eagleton on Aesthetics. This paper was given at the conference `Aesthetics, Gender Nation’, a day of discussion of the work of Terry Eagleton, organised by the Raymond Williams Trust, Oxford, March 1998.
Terry Eagleton: Let me begin with what strikes me as an interesting fact about the so-called ‘canon’ of literature, which has recently generated so much debate footnote ＊. I take ‘canonical’ works to be in some sense works of value; but the truth is that if you write one such work of value, then by the laws of the canon all the rest of your works make it into the canon too.
- Enoch Kelly Haney
- Charles Banks Wilson
- Jay O’Meilia
- Woody Crumbo
- Conclusion
Born on November 12th, 1940, Enoch Kelly Haneyis among the most celebrated of statesmen and renowned leaders of the Seminole Native American tribe in Oklahoma. However, before his storied career as a politician and leader, Haney always saw himself as an artist first. Even as a child, whether he was sculpting from the red clay in his front yard or s...
Though born in Springdale, Arkansas, the life, work, and artistic legacy of Charles Banks Wilson is an indelible part of Oklahoma’s art history. Spending the majority of his early life in the state after his family’s move to Miami, OK, Charles quickly discovered his passion for painting from an early age — and wasted no time putting his creative ta...
An Oklahoma native, Philip Jay O’Meiliawas born on July 17th, 1927. His impact and influence in the art history of our great state is best seen in his bodies of work depicting the grandeur and energy of Oklahoma sports, as well as the grit and spirit of Oklahoma’s oil and gas workers. Like many of Oklahoma’s most influential artists, O’Meilia’s cre...
Woody Crumbo, born in Lexington, OK on January 31st, 1912, was a Potawatomi Native American artist whose early nomadic life inspired a lifetime of creative expression that celebrated the history and impact of his people. Orphaned at the age of 7, Woody’s early life was spent in a multitude of various Native families, including those within the Cree...
There are countless artists who have contributed to Oklahoma’s history of art and culture, and though these are only a few of the many incredible painters in our states’ history, we’re grateful for you taking the time to share and celebrate these people with us. As we continue to collect their stories — only made possible by gifts from listeners an...
Terry Eagleton explicates and advocates his version of the Marxist model of aes - thetic experience. Aesthetics, as a field that primarily produces discourse about art, is something of a paradox for Eagleton. He describes it as “a contradictory, self-undoing sort of project, which in promoting the theoretical value of its object
Eagleton goes on to chart the itinerary of the aesthetic in a series of essays on, among others, A. G. Baumgarten, the Earl of Shaftesbury, Burke, Schiller, Benjamin, and Adorno. Inaugurated as "a discourse. of the body" (13) in the mid eighteenth century, aesthetics has. experienced numerous vicissitudes in its long march into the post-.
The Ideology of the Aesthetic by Terry Eagleton A review by Geoff Wade. This book – while not for the faint-hearted – is certainly accessible to anyone willing to put in some effort (well rewarded effort), be they ‘academics’ or not. The work explores and explicates the contiguity and confluence of ideology, ethics and art.
The aesthetic is simply cognition viewed in a different light, caught in the act, so that, in this. little crisis or revelatory breakdown of our cognitive routines, not what. we know but that we know becomes the deepest, most delightful mys- tery. The aesthetic, as the moment of letting the world go and clinging.
