Art versus Nonart : Art out of Mind (Paperback)

Preface; Introduction: the twentieth century: the era of nonart; Part I. Disillusionment: 1. Art in a paradigmatic crisis; 2. Modern art and the logic of pretense; 3. Is there abstraction in abstract art?; 4. Aesthetics in the service of the new barbarism; Part II. Mind and Art: 5. Mindprints: the structural shadows of mind-reality?; 6. The breakdown of hierarchy in twentieth-century art and its implications for present and future art; 7. Is figurative representation arbitrary? A reexamination of the Conventionalist view of art and its implications for nonfigurative art; 8. Symmetry: the connectivity principle of art; Epilog: ashes to ashes and beyond; Appendix; Notes; References; Index.