He saw no division between art and ideology, suggesting that the outside world influenced artists just as much as what went ...

Motivated by a deep commitment to art's intrinsic value and autonomy, formalism typically downplays the expressive or cognitive gains of art. In philosophy of art, authors like Immanuel Kant and ...

rigorous formalism and focus on the present, it ultimately must engage the memory of the viewer to endow it with meaning. – Beryl Korot Dachau 1974 is a groundbreaking work in the history of ...