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Author | : Eliot Deutsch |
Publisher | : SUNY Press |
Total Pages | : 140 |
Release | : 1996-01-01 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780791431115 |
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Presents a theory of art which is at once universal in its general conception and historically-grounded in its attention to aesthetic practices in diverse cultures. Argues that art, especially today, enjoys a special kind of autonomy but that it has, nevertheless, important social and political responsibilities.
Author | : Eliot Deutsch |
Publisher | : SUNY Press |
Total Pages | : 140 |
Release | : 1996-11-01 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780791431122 |
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In this newest book, the author presents a theory of art which is at once universal in its general conception and historically-grounded in its attention to aesthetic practices in diverse cultures. The author argues that especially today art not only enjoys a special king of autonomy but also has important social and political responsibilities.
Author | : Charles Harrison |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 2003-09-12 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780262582414 |
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Critical and theoretical essays by a long-time participant in the Art & Language movement. These essays by art historian and critic Charles Harrison are based on the premise that making art and talking about art are related enterprises. They are written from the point of view of Art & Language, the artistic movement based in England—and briefly in the United States—with which Harrison has been associated for thirty years. Harrison uses the work of Art & Language as a central case study to discuss developments in art from the 1950s through the 1980s. According to Harrison, the strongest motivation for writing about art is that it brings us closer to that which is other than ourselves. In seeing how a work is done, we learn about its achieved identity: we see, for example, that a drip on a Pollock is integral to its technical character, whereas a drip on a Mondrian would not be. Throughout the book, Harrison uses specific examples to address a range of questions about the history, theory, and making of modern art—questions about the conditions of its making and the nature of its public, about the problems and priorities of criticism, and about the relations between interpretation and judgment.
Author | : Malcolm Budd |
Publisher | : Clarendon Press |
Total Pages | : 171 |
Release | : 2003-01-09 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0191531847 |
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The aesthetics of nature has over the last few decades become an intense focus of philosophical reflection, as it has been ever more widely recognised that it is not a mere appendage to the aesthetics of art. Just as nature offers aesthetic experiences beyond the reach of art, so the aesthetics of nature raises issues not contained within the philosophy of art. Malcolm Budd presents four interlinked essays addressing all the main problems about the aesthetics of nature. These include: how the aesthetic appreciation of nature should be understood; the character of an aesthetic response to nature; what kinds of aesthetic experience nature affords and what kinds of aesthetic judgement it is amenable to; the aesthetic significance of intrusions by humanity into nature; whether aesthetic judgements about nature can be objectively true; the doctrine of positive aesthetics with respect to nature; the aesthetic significance of knowledge of nature and in particular whether scientific knowledge is necessary for serious aesthetic appreciation of nature; and the correct model for the appropriate aesthetic appreciation of nature. The Aesthetic Appreciation of Nature also includes a comprehensive exposition and examination of the thoughts of the greatest philosopher to make a substantial contribution to the subject, Immanuel Kant, and an encyclopaedic critical survey of much of the most significant recent literature. Scholars and students of aesthetics will find valuable resources here, and much to think about.
Author | : Jeffrey Kastner |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Aesthetics |
ISBN | : 9780262517669 |
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This anthology considers how the rise of transdisciplinary practices in the post-war era allowed for new kinds of artistic engagement with nature. It provides an overview of the eclectic scientific and philosophical sources that inform contemporary art's investigations of nature.
Author | : John Updike |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 359 |
Release | : 2006-02-23 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 014192182X |
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In Still Looking, John Updike has collected together his thoughts and observations on American art to produce an eye-opening follow-up to his 1989 art criticism classic Just Looking. Beginning with early American portraits and landscapes, he goes on to extol two late-nineteenth-century masters, Winslow Homer and Thomas Eakins, considers the eccentric pre-modern painter and graphic artist James McNeill Whistler, discusses the competing American Impressionists and Realists of the early twentieth century - and concludes with appreciations of the art of Edward Hopper, Jackson Pollock and Andy Warhol. The resulting collection of essays is proof that Updike is still looking and seeing what only he can describe. 'As a writer Updike can do anything he wants' Margaret Atwood 'John Updike writes with a steady brilliance about the world out there' Guardian
Author | : Max Weber |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 94 |
Release | : 1916 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Allan Kaprow |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2003-12-15 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780520240797 |
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Allan Kaprow's sustained enquiry into the paradoxical relationship of art to life and into the nature of meaning itself is brought into life in this expanded collection of his most significant writings.
Author | : Ronald W. Hepburn |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 2019-05-29 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1351751581 |
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This title was first published in 2001. This book focuses on the rich web of interrelations between aesthetic and wider human concerns. Among topics explored are concepts of truth and falsity (within art and aesthetic experience generally), superficiality and depth in aesthetic appreciation of nature, moral beauty and ugliness, the projects of integrating a life, of fashioning a life as a work of art, experiments in the aesthetic re-working of the 'sacred', the role of imagination within religion and in our attempts to place and identify ourselves within the cosmos. The essays are both interlinked and distinct, allowing them to be read in any order, and providing useful themes for discussion groups and seminars. The author aims to arouse in the reader something of his enjoyment in unravelling the connections of ideas that come into view when one approaches aesthetics in its widest setting.
Author | : Archibald Alison |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 468 |
Release | : 1815 |
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