The Dehumanization of Art and Other Essays on Art, Culture, and Literature

by José Ortega y Gasset

Book Overview

No work of Spanish philosopher and essayist Jos? Ortega y Gasset has been more frequently cited, admired, or criticized than his defense of modernism, "The Dehumanization of Art." In the essay, originally published in Spanish in 1925, Ortega grappled philosophically with the newness of nonrepresentational art and sought to make it more understandable to a public confused by it. Many embraced the essay as a manifesto extolling the virtues of vanguard...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691019614
• ISBN13: 9780691019611
• Release Date: November 1968
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 204 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.0" x 8.0"