Aesthetics and The Work of Art: Adorno, Kafka, Richter

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Ten leading commentators explore the interfaces between art and aesthetics in dialogue with a philosophical text (Theodor Adorno’s draft introduction to Aesthetic Theory ), a piece of literary writing (Franz Kafka’s A Report to an Academy ), and a major contemporary painting (Gerhard Richter’s Betty , 1988).