A Theory of Art

Erscheinungsjahr 2002
ISBN: 978-0-19-515852-6
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 304 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 496 g

What, if anything, has art to do with the rest of our lives, and in particular with those ethical and political issues that matter to us most? Will art created today be likely to play a role in our lives as profound as that of the best art of the past?

A Theory of Art shifts the focus of aesthetics from the traditional debate of "what is art?" to the engaging question of "what is art for?" Skillfully describing the social and historical situation of art today, author Karol Berger argues that music exemplifies the current condition of art in a radical, acute, and revealing fashion. He also uniquely combines aesthetics with poetics and hermeneutics. Offering a careful synthesis of a wide breadth of scholarship from art history, musicology, literary studies, political philosophy, ethics, and metaphysics, and written in a clear, accessible style, this book will appeal to anyone with a serious interest in the arts.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Berger, Karol

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunsttheorie, Kunstphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ästhetik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Prologue. The Function and value of art

- Part I.

- 1.: Aesthetics I. The nature of art

- 2.: Aesthetics II. The uses of art

- 3.: Aesthetics III. The genealogy of modern European art music

- Part II.

- 4.: Poetics I. Diegesis and mimesis: the poetic modes and the matter of artistic presentation

- 5.: Poetics II. Narrative and lyric: the poetic forms and the object of artistic presentation

- 6.: Hermenetics. Interpretation and its validity

- Epilogue. The power of taste

- Notes

Über Autor(innen)

Karol Berger Is Osgood Hooker Professor in Fine Arts at Stanford University. He is the author of numerous studies in the history of music aesthetics and theory, vocal pholyphony from 1400 to 1600, and instrumental music from 1780 to 1850. His Musica Ficta (1987) won the Otto Kinkeldey Award of the American Musicological Society.