Dave Davies

Art as Performance

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Elaborates and defends a broad conceptual framework for thinking about the arts. Offers a provocative view about the kinds of things that artworks are and how they are to be understood. Reveals important continuities and discontinuities between traditional and modern art.

Produktdetails

• New Directions in Aesthetics
• Verlag: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 278
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Dezember 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 420g
• ISBN-13: 9781405116671
• ISBN-10: 1405116676
• Artikelnr.: 21979085

Autorenporträt

David Davies is Associate Professor of Philosophy at McGill University and has published widely on topics in philosophy of art, metaphysics, philosophy of language, and philosophy of mind.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface.

1. Introduction.

2. Aesthetic Empiricism.

3. The Fine Structure of the Focus of Appreciation.

4. The Artwork as Performance: An Argument from ArtisticIntentions.

5. Provenance, Modality, and the Identity of the Artwork.

6. Artwork, Action, and Performance.

7. Art as Performance.

8. Revisionism and Modernism Revisited.

9. Performance as Art.

10. Defining 'Art' as Performance, and the Values ofArt:.

Notes Towards a Definition of 'Art'.

The Values of Art.

Conclusions: The Case Against Contextualism.

References.

Index

Rezensionen

"David Davies's Art as Performance is itself quite aperformance. While agreeing with aesthetic contextualism'srejection of empiricism in aesthetics, it presents a sophisticatedand ingenious critique of, and alternative to, even the mostenlightened contextualism about the nature, ontology, and value ofart, holding that artworks are, all of them, performances byartists, rather than objects made by artists. Davies'sarguments will require, and will richly reward, the most carefulattention from his fellow aestheticians." Jerrold Levinson,University of Maryland

"David Davies brings philosophical rigor and fine-grainedanalytical reasoning to live and pressing debates about thefundamental nature of art. He offers a striking and original thesisas well as an illuminating presentation of the issues. A compellingperformance!"

Peter Lamarque, University of York