Aesthetics of Expenditure: Art, Philosophy, and the Infinite Faculty

The dissertation re-examines the philosophy of Georges Bataille within the context of post-Kantian aesthetics and argues for a re-evaluation of Bataille’s notion of expenditure [depenser] within this context. The dissertation argues further that the artistic practice of Robert Smithson is an exempla...

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Main Author: Turpin, Stephen
Other Authors: Boler, Megan
Language:en_ca
Published: 2010
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1807/24901