E-Book, Englisch, 288 Seiten
Graham Philosophy of the Arts
3. Auflage 2005
ISBN: 978-1-134-27121-4
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
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An Introduction to Aesthetics
E-Book, Englisch, 288 Seiten
ISBN: 978-1-134-27121-4
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)
Philosophy of the Arts presents a comprehensive and accessible introduction to those coming to aesthetics and the philosophy of art for the first time. The third edition is greatly enhanced by new sections on art and beauty, modern art, Aristotle and katharsis, and Hegel. Each chapter has been thoroughly revised with fresh material and extended discussions. As with previous editions, the book:
- is jargon-free and will appeal to students of music, art history and literature as well as philosophy
- looks at a wide range of the arts from film, painting and architecture to fiction, music and poetry
- discusses a range of philosophical theories of thinkers such as Hume, Kant, Gaender, Collingwood, Derrida, Hegel and Croce
- contains regular summaries and suggestions for further reading.
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Chapter One Art and Pleasure
Hume on taste and tragedy – Collingwood on art as amusement – Mill on higher and lower pleasures – the nature of pleasure
Chapter Two Art and Beauty
Beauty and pleasure – Kant on beauty -- the aesthetic attitude and the sublime – art and the aesthetic -- Gadamer and art as play – art and sport – summary
Chapter Three Art and Emotion
Tolstoy and everyday expressivism – Aristotle and katharsis -- expression and imagination -- Croce and 'intuition' -- Collingwood's expressivism - expression versus expressiveness – summary
Chapter Four Art and Understanding
Hegel, art and mind – art, science and knowledge - aesthetic cognitivism, for and against - imagination and experience - the objects of imagination - art and the world - understanding as a norm – art and human nature -- summary
Chapter Five Music and Sonic Art
Music and pleasure - music and emotion - music as language - music and representation - musical vocabulary and musical grammar - the uniqueness of music - music and beauty - music as the exploration of sound – sonic art and digital technology – summary
Chapter Six The Visual Arts
What is representation? - representation and artistic value - art and the visual - visual art and the non-visual - film as art - montage versus longshot - talkies - the 'auteur' in film - summary
Chapter Seven The Literary Arts
Poetry and prose -- the unity of form and content - figures of speech - expressive language - poetic devices - narrative and fiction - literature and understanding - summary
Chapter Eight The Performing Arts
Artist, audience and performer – painting as the paradigm of art – Nietzsche and The Birth of Tragedy – performance and participation – the art of the actor -- summary
Chapter Nine Architecture as an Art
The peculiarities of architecture - form and function and ‘the decorated shed’ - façade, deception and the 'Zeitgeist' - functionalism - formalism and 'space' – resumé --architectural expression -- architecture and understanding – summary
Chapter Ten Modern Art
The break with tradition – experimental art and the avant-garde – the art of the readymade – conceptual art – the market in art – art and leisure – summary
Chapter Eleven The Aesthetics of Nature
The objectivity of aesthetic evaluation - the artist's intention - the intentionalist 'fallacy' - natural beauty – environmentalism and the aesthetics of nature – summary
Chapter Twelve Theories of Art
Defining art - art as an institution - sociology and the Marxist theory of art - Lukacs and realism - Levy-Strauss and structuralism - Derrida and deconstruction - Hegel and Schopenhauer: normative theory of art - summary
