Art and the Question of Meaning

by Hans Küng

Book Overview

Many people find modern art, in whatever medium, meaningless. Its radical questioning of all aesthetic norms, its wild experimentation and its lack of direction stand in stark contrast to the past, with its great tradition of meaningful artistic expression. Of course, it can be argued that modern artists are simply feeling much more deeply what anyone alive today must sense, however vaguely and superficially: a deeply pessimistic and often nihilistic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824500164
• ISBN13: 9780824500160
• Release Date: January 1981
• Publisher: Crossroad Pub Co
• Length: 71 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.