by Yves Michaud · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782234055551
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«L'Art à l'état gazeux» is the aesthetics essay by Yves Michaud, published by Stock in paperback (203 pages, in French).
The essay starts from a paradox: we live in a cosmetic world where everything aspires to be beautiful, while art as a venerated object loses its central place. Yves Michaud sees an ephemeral and conceptual creation —happenings, installations, performances— and argues that this is not the end of art, but the end of its traditional regime of objects.
Subtitled «Essai sur le triomphe de l'esthétique», it appeared in 2003 in Stock's Les Essais collection.
For readers of philosophy and aesthetics interested in the debate on contemporary art and its turn towards the ephemeral and conceptual.
Yves Michaud is a French philosopher. As a student, he studied philosophy and science at École Normale Supérieure and the Sorbonne in Paris. His early research involved the study of political violence and empiricism, especially the works of John Locke and David Hume. He was Director of the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts from 1989 to 1997. In 2000, Michaud partnered with Jean-Jacques Aillagon to establish the Université de tous les savoirs , a French government initiative to disseminate information on new scientific advances.
