Explores the contemporary pedagogical significance of modernism.Mediumism considers what the modernist movement in the arts could mean for us today. It examines how artists and critics; particularly in the visual arts; responded to the growth of industries of distraction since the nineteenth century by creating new kinds of artworks that stress their mediums. Reneacute; V. Arcilla draws out the metaphysical and ethical implications of the work of critics Clement Greenberg; T. J. Clark; and Michael Fried from a perspective rooted in existentialism. He finds in the resulting moral orientation a way to understand the distinctive purpose of liberal education and its political resistance to consumerism. Eschewing terminology that would be familiar to only one set of specialists; the book aims to be accessible to a general audience as well as to readers interested in modernist art; cultural politics; existentialist philosophy; and the philosophical principles of liberal education.ldquo;Arcilla presents a rich conceptual analysis of existentialist thought as it is reflected in aesthetic; cultural; and educational contexts hellip; his short book offers readers a mini-course in liberal education.rdquo; mdash; CHOICEReneacute; V. Arcilla is Associate Professor of Educational Philosophy at New York University. He is the author of For the Love of Perfection: Richard Rorty and Liberal Education and the coeditor (with David T. Hansen and Mary Erina Driscoll) of A Life in Classrooms: Philip W. Jackson and the Practice of Education.
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