Counter-virtues and the Work of Art in Wolfgang Laib
The work of art seems irrelevant to many today. This essay looks to Wolfgang Laib to find the relevance of this seeming irrelevance. In a society that values the virtues of the disruptive entrepreneur, Laib’s pursuit of the work of art practices counter-virtues that care for things, small, singular...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2024
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Cross currents
Year: 2024, Volume: 74, Issue: 2, Pages: 153-171 |
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| Summary: | The work of art seems irrelevant to many today. This essay looks to Wolfgang Laib to find the relevance of this seeming irrelevance. In a society that values the virtues of the disruptive entrepreneur, Laib’s pursuit of the work of art practices counter-virtues that care for things, small, singular things often decimated by a society that counts value in millions. Beautiful and reverent, the work of art in Wolfgang Laib might seem equally irrelevant when relevance is counted in terms of a contribution to the cause of progress, of whatever kind, and yet Laib’s devotion to things, in its very irrelevance, has important virtues of its own, all the more needed in a society where reality is, to allude to singer-songwriter Ryan Adams, as real as a plastic bouquet. |
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| ISSN: | 1939-3881 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Cross currents
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1353/cro.2024.a951554 |
