The Philistine Controversy. (Ouvrages, Theoriques _ Essay).(Book Review)

Parachute: Contemporary Art Magazine | January 1, 2003| | Copyright

Dave Beech and John Roberts, The Philistine Controversy, London: Verso Books, 2002, 314 pp.

The Philistine Controversy centres around "Spectres of the AEsthetic," a 1999 essay written by artist and critic Dave Beech and art historian John Roberts. Beech and Roberts passionately argue for a political approach to the mind/body division that underlies the philistine versus aesthete dichotomy.

Beech and Roberts cast the philistine in the role of a "counter-intuitive" relational category within art, as opposed to the theory of the "other-cultured" philistine ...

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