Aesthetics and the Iconoclasm of Contemporary Art

The main themes and aims of this book are understanding aesthetics, contemporary art and the end of the avant-garde not from the traditional viewpoint of the metaphysics of the beautiful and the sublime but rather thru close connection to thetechno-genesis of virtual worlds. This book tackles problems in contemporary art theory such as thebodyin space and time of digital technologies, along with other issues in visual studies andimage science. Further intentions exhibit the fundamental reasons for the disappearance of the picture in the era ofvirtual realitystarting from the notion of contemporary art as realized iconoclasm; art has no world for its "image". The author argues that the iconoclasm ofcontemporary arthas severe consequences. This text appeals to philosophers of art and those interested in contemporary art theory.