{"id":"https://openalex.org/W29737738","doi":null,"title":"Why Art? Casual Notes on the Aesthetics of the Immediate Past","display_name":"Why Art? Casual Notes on the Aesthetics of the Immediate Past","publication_year":1977,"publication_date":"1977-03-07","ids":{"openalex":"https://openalex.org/W29737738","mag":"29737738"},"language":"en","primary_location":{"id":"mag:29737738","doi":null,"is_oa":false,"landing_page_url":"https://www.amazon.com/Casual-Notes-Aesthetics-Immediate-Past/dp/052547286X","pdf_url":null,"source":null,"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":null,"is_accepted":false,"is_published":false,"raw_source_name":null,"raw_type":null},"volume":null,"type":"book","indexed_in":[],"open_access":{"is_oa":false,"oa_status":"closed","oa_url":null,"any_repository_has_fulltext":false},"authorships":[{"author_position":"first","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5037603166","display_name":"Gregory Battcock","orcid":null,"observed_orcids":[]},"institutions":[],"countries":[],"is_corresponding":true,"raw_author_name":"Gregory Battcock","raw_affiliation_strings":[],"raw_orcid":null,"affiliations":[]}],"institutions":[],"countries_distinct_count":0,"institutions_distinct_count":0,"corresponding_author_ids":["https://openalex.org/A5037603166"],"corresponding_institution_ids":[],"apc_list":null,"apc_paid":null,"fwci":0.0,"has_fulltext":false,"cited_by_count":5,"citation_normalized_percentile":{"value":0.00076278,"is_in_top_1_percent":false,"is_in_top_10_percent":false},"cited_by_percentile_year":{"min":89,"max":97},"biblio":{"volume":null,"issue":null,"first_page":null,"last_page":null},"is_retracted":false,"is_paratext":false,"is_xpac":false,"primary_topic":{"id":"https://openalex.org/T12444","display_name":"Art, Politics, and Modernism","score":0.573199987411499,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1213","display_name":"Visual Arts and Performing Arts"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/12","display_name":"Arts and Humanities"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/2","display_name":"Social Sciences"}},"topics":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/T12444","display_name":"Art, Politics, and Modernism","score":0.573199987411499,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1213","display_name":"Visual Arts and Performing Arts"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/12","display_name":"Arts and Humanities"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/2","display_name":"Social Sciences"}},{"id":"https://openalex.org/T14322","display_name":"Art, Aesthetics, and Perception","score":0.31690001487731934,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1213","display_name":"Visual Arts and Performing Arts"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/12","display_name":"Arts and Humanities"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/2","display_name":"Social Sciences"}},{"id":"https://openalex.org/T12632","display_name":"Visual Culture and Art Theory","score":0.06780000030994415,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1213","display_name":"Visual Arts and Performing Arts"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/12","display_name":"Arts and Humanities"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/2","display_name":"Social Sciences"}}],"keywords":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/aesthetics","display_name":"aesthetics","score":0.7730000019073486},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/art","display_name":"art","score":0.6420000195503235},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/immediacy","display_name":"immediacy","score":0.6629999876022339},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/the-past","display_name":"past","score":0.42399999499320984}],"concepts":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/C2781426162","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2275793","display_name":"Casual","level":2,"score":0.9437157511711121},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C107038049","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q35986","display_name":"Aesthetics","level":1,"score":0.7751516699790955},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C142362112","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q735","display_name":"Art","level":0,"score":0.5311915874481201},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C17744445","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q36442","display_name":"Political science","level":0,"score":0.13771909475326538},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C199539241","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7748","display_name":"Law","level":1,"score":0.041305363178253174}],"mesh":[],"locations_count":1,"locations":[{"id":"mag:29737738","doi":null,"is_oa":false,"landing_page_url":"https://www.amazon.com/Casual-Notes-Aesthetics-Immediate-Past/dp/052547286X","pdf_url":null,"source":null,"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":null,"is_accepted":false,"is_published":false,"raw_source_name":null,"raw_type":null}],"best_oa_location":null,"sustainable_development_goals":[],"study_designs":[],"awards":[],"funders":[],"has_content":{"pdf":false,"grobid_xml":false},"content_urls":null,"referenced_works_count":0,"referenced_works":[],"related_works":["https://openalex.org/W2970717671","https://openalex.org/W3036239193","https://openalex.org/W2619379661","https://openalex.org/W651147954","https://openalex.org/W2529480288","https://openalex.org/W4244356762","https://openalex.org/W7036219669","https://openalex.org/W3016259278","https://openalex.org/W2566066721","https://openalex.org/W2047520990"],"abstract_inverted_index":null,"counts_by_year":[{"year":2015,"cited_by_count":1},{"year":2014,"cited_by_count":3}],"updated_date":"2026-08-08T07:41:36.138363","created_date":"2016-06-24T00:00:00"}