Paul Crowther

Defining Art, Creating the Canon

Artistic Value in an Era of Doubt

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Produktbeschreibung

What is art; why should we value it; and what allows us to say that one work is better than another? Paul Crowther uses a philosophical approach to argue that there is such a thing as distinctively artistic value based on aesthetic criteria. He exposes flaws in the arguments of sceptics for whom there can be no such thing as objectively good art.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP Oxford
• Seitenzahl: 276
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. November 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 424g
• ISBN-13: 9780199698585
• ISBN-10: 0199698589
• Artikelnr.: 33722296

Autorenporträt

Paul Crowther is Professor of Philosophy and the Visual Arts at Jacobs University Bremen in Germany.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Normative Aesthetics and Artistic Value
Part One: Culture and Artistic Value
1: Cultural Exclusion and the Definition of Art
2: Defining Art, Defending the Canon, Contesting Culture
Part Two: The Aesthetic and the Artistic
3: From Beauty to Art; Developing Kant's Aesthetics
4: The Scope and Value of the Artistic Image
Part Three: Distinctive Modes of Imaging
5: Twofoldness: Pictorial Art and the Imagination
6: Between Language and Perception: Literary Metaphor
7: Musical Meaning and Value
8: Eternalizing the Moment: Artistic Projections of Time
Conclusion - The Status and Future of Art