{"product_id":"a-critique-of-taste-by-galvano-della-volpe","title":"'A Critique of Taste' by Galvano Della Volpe","description":"\u003ch4 data-start=\"97\" data-end=\"225\"\u003eGalvano Della Volpe’s attempt to rebuild aesthetics from the ground up.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"227\" data-end=\"580\"\u003eRejecting the vague language of “beauty” and subjective taste that had dominated philosophy since the eighteenth century, Della Volpe argues that art should be understood through structure, logic, and historical conditions rather than personal feeling. In place of romantic intuition, he proposes a rigorous, almost scientific analysis of artistic form.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"2210\" data-end=\"2389\"\u003eDella Volpe’s project was basically an attempt to discipline aesthetics — to remove the mystical language around art and treat it as a system that could be analysed logically. It sits in the strange corner of philosophy where Marxism collides with almost analytic-style precision. Not common territory.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"844\" data-end=\"1034\"\u003eThe result is a dense but influential intervention in twentieth-century aesthetic theory, sitting alongside debates around structuralism, Marxist criticism, and post-war European philosophy.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44168885403731,"sku":null,"price":26.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/Untitleddesign-2026-03-05T184420.107.png?v=1772696692","url":"https:\/\/bowerbooks.com\/products\/a-critique-of-taste-by-galvano-della-volpe","provider":"bower books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}