^ THE AUTHOR, AND ART, THE MARKET RereadingtheHistory ofAesthetics The Social Foundations of Aesthetic Forms Series JonathanArac, Editor THE SOCIAL FOUNDATIONS OF AESTHETIC FORMS A seriesof COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS JonathanArac, Editor CriticalGenealogies:HistoricalSituationsfor PostmodernLiteraryStudies JonathanArac AdvertisingFictions:Literature,Advertisement, andSocialReading Wicke Jennifer MasksofConquest:LiteraryStudyandBritishRuleinIndia GauriViswanathan LeftPoliticsandtheLiteraryProfession LennardJ. Davis and M. BellaMirabella, eds. The Vietnam WarandAmerican Culture John Carlos Rowe and Rick Berg, eds. AuthorsandAuthority:English andAmerican Criticism, 1750-7990 Patrick Parrinder Reaches ofEmpire: TheEnglishNovelfrom Edgervorth toDickens Suvendrini Perera RadicalParody:American CultureandCriticalAgency AfterFoucault DanielT. O'Hara TheProfession ofAuthorship inAmerica 1800-1870 William Charvat NarratingDiscovery: TheRomanticExplorerinAmericanLiterature, 1790-1855 Bruce Greenfield THE AUTHOR, AND ART, THE MARKET Rereading the History ofAesthetics Martha Woodmansee Columbia University Press New York A IOT2L4 2-5 Columbia UniversityPress NewYork Chichester, WestSussex Copyright 1994ColumbiaUniversityPress Allrightsreserved LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Woodmansee,Martha. Theauthor,art,andthemarket:rereadingthe historyofaesthetics/MarthaWoodmansee. p. cm. (Socialfoundationsofaesthetic formsseries) Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. ISBN0-231-08060-3 (alk.paper) i. Aesthetics,Modern 18thcentury. 2. Aesthetics,Comparative. 3. Popularculture. I. Tide. II. Series. BHi8i.W66 1994 in'.85 dc20 94-35564 CIP CaseboundeditionsofColumbiaUniversityPressbooks areprintedonpermanentanddurableacid-freepaper. PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica 987654321 c 10 CONTENTS Acknowledgments vii Foreword Arthur C. Danto ix Introduction: Rereadingthe History ofAesthetics i 1. The Interests in Disinterestedness 11 2. Genius and the Copyright 35 3. Aesthetic Autonomy as aWeapon in Cultural Politics: Rereadingthe AestheticLetters 57 4. Aesthetics and the Policing ofReading 87 5. EngenderingArt 103 6. The Uses ofKant in England 111 NOTES 149 WORKS CITED 179 INDEX 195
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