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"To engage with the aesthetic is to watch yourself watching  and what you see cannot be reached, for all that exists is the reflection of the vision performed by you. The aesthetic experience offers insights into the consciousness that are both ancient and linked to creative inventions in present-day art culture. In ""A Place to Know"", Margaretha Rossholm Lagerlöf interprets twelve recent artworks, from Sol LeWitt to Katharina Grosse. She sets out the unique claims and qualities which are inherent in seeing and understanding contemporary art. The book presents four analytical categories of artwork, charting the character of the aesthetic experience and the traditions that determine how we think about visual art. She peels back the layers of consciousness to lay bare the forgotten seams of experience, interwoven with artistic expression. The ancient thus arcs into a deepened awareness of avant-garde art."

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'Margaretha Rossholm Lagerloef has a keen eye, a sharp mind, and an elegant and sprightly style. I am glad that she has written this bookone which sits so pleasingly in the hand. As the book centres on studies of a select number of artworks, I know it will be a source of productive debate in teaching seminars. While I do not always agree with the authors conclusions, that is scarcely a drawback; on the contrary, it makes the book even more suitable as the basis for fruitful discussions.' -- Max Liljefors, Professor of Art History and Visual Studies at Lund University, Sweden

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Margaretha Rossholm Lagerlöf is professor of Art History at the Stockholm University. She is retired from teaching, but is active as senior advisor to the University on questions on art-events, exhibiting art, and on perspectives on art in comparative analyses with other ways of thinking and expressing. From having dealt mainly with the classic traditions and the Baroque, she is now engaged in contemporary endeavours in art and exhibiting art.

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