Art, Excess, and Education: Historical and Discursive Contexts

This book concentrates on the deep historical, political, and institutional relationships between art, education, and excess. Going beyond field specific discourses of art history, art criticism, philosophy, and aesthetics, it explores how the concept of excess has been important and enduring from antiquity through contemporary art, and from early film through the newer interactive media. Examples considered throughout the book focus on disgust, grandiosity,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030218279
• ISBN13: 9783030218270
• Release Date: August 2019
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 207 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.3"