Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• William Watts Miller
• W.S.F. Pickering
• Alexander Riley

Titel

Total Aesthetics: Art and The Elemental Forms

Ist Teil von

• Durkheim, the Durkheimians, and the Arts, 2013, p.16

Auflage

1

Ort / Verlag

Berghahn Books

Erscheinungsjahr

2013

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The Elemental Formsincludes a sketch of a general theory of art, which is part of its core worldview, and which lays the basis of what might be discussed as “a total aesthetics.” One of the problems in bringing this out is the need to understand the work’s overall structure, which in turn has origins in the story of the work itself and why and how it was created. In brief, it has roots in an intellectual crisis in which Durkheim’s old theories were undermined by a pioneering ethnography of Australia by Baldwin Spencer and Francis Gillen (1899). In forcing him