{"product_id":"the-dehumanization-of-art-and-other-essays-on-art-culture-and-literature-by-jose-ortega-y-gasset-9780691197210","title":"The Dehumanization of Art and Other Essays on Art, Culture, and Literature","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA classic work on radical aesthetics by one of the great philosophers of the early twentieth century, no work of philosopher and essayist José Ortega y Gasset has been more frequently cited, admired, or criticized than his response to modernism, \u003cem\u003eThe Dehumanization of Art\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe essay, originally published in Spanish in 1925, grappled with the newness of nonrepresentational art and sought to make it more understandable to the public. Many embraced the essay as a manifesto extolling the virtues of vanguard artists and promoting efforts to abandon the realism and the romanticism of the nineteenth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOthers took it as a denunciation of everything that was radical about the avant-garde. This Princeton Classics edition makes this essential work, along with four of Ortega's other critical essays, available in English.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA new foreword by Anthony J. Cascardi considers how Ortega's philosophy remains relevant and significant in the twenty-first century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"NewSouth Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47455758024940,"sku":"9780691197210","price":54.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/81fJ3tlOFrL._SL1500.jpg?v=1774796995","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/the-dehumanization-of-art-and-other-essays-on-art-culture-and-literature-by-jose-ortega-y-gasset-9780691197210","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}