Hans Maes

Conversations on Art and Aesthetics

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Produktbeschreibung

What is art? What counts as an aesthetic experience? Does art have to beautiful? Can one reasonably dispute about taste? What is the relation between aesthetic and moral evaluations? How do we interpret a work of art? Hans Maes presents lively conversations about these and many related questions with ten world-leading philosophers of art.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Juli 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 139mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 464g
• ISBN-13: 9780198843870
• ISBN-10: 0198843879
• Artikelnr.: 56723345

Autorenporträt

Hans Maes is Senior Lecturer in History and Philosophy of Art and Director of the Aesthetics Research Centre at the University of Kent at Canterbury. He has authored papers on a variety of subjects in aesthetics, including the role of intention in the interpretation of art, the notion of free beauty, and the relation between art and pornography. In 2010 he was elected President of the Dutch Society for Aesthetics. He is the editor of Art and Pornography: Philosophical Essays with Jerrold Levinson (OUP, 2012)

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1: Aesthetic Experience and Artistic Value
2: The Commonplace Raised to a Higher Power
3: Inside Out: Portraits, Art, Science
4: The Tasty, The Disgusting, and the Genuine
5: The Emotions in Art
6: Sharing a Home in the World
7: Stories and What They (Don't) Teach Us
8: Critical Encounters with the Past
9: Art Practice, Art Criticism, and Philosophy of Art
10: Aesthetics and Theory Construction