Kathleen K Desmond

Ideas about Art

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Ideas about Art is an engaging and inspirational text that teaches students to apply critical theory and develop and support their own opinions concerning aesthetics and art theory. The text examines a range of art-based dilemmas, cases and instances of art in a multicultural context and across a wide variety of disciplines--from art and design and law to visual and museum studies. Organized into small chapters that begin with concrete stimuli for delving into deeper philosophical issues real and hypothetical--art's value, taste, the creative process, censorship, and aesthetic taste and theory--Ideas about Art includes stories from artists, art critics, art museum and art gallery professionals and philosophers, and brings art and aesthetics to life.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Mai 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 567g
• ISBN-13: 9781405178839
• ISBN-10: 1405178833
• Artikelnr.: 35358524

Autorenporträt

Kathleen Desmond is Professor of Art History and Byler Distinguished Faculty at the University of Central Missouri where she teaches aesthetics, art criticism and art history and writes about contemporary art and artists.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations ix
Preface x
Acknowledgements xxii
1 Public Opinion/Public Art 1
I Don't Know Anything About Art, But I Know What I Like!
2 Non-Western Ideas About What Art Is 15
Is Art Situational? Cultural? Biological? Universal?
3 Western Ideas About What Art Is 33
4 Beauty 52
Does Art Have to be Beautiful?
5 Expression and Aesthetic Experience 67
6 Art and Ethics 78
Morals and Religion
7 Political Art, Censorship, and Pornography 93
When Art Is Too Powerful, Cover It Up
8 Art and Economics 111
9 Feminist Art, Aesthetics, and Art Criticism 123
Where Were the Women in My Art History Books?
10 Postmodernist Art and Attitudes 142
11 Photography and New Media 156
12 (Re)Discovering Design 171
13 Art and Aesthetic Education 190
14 Artists, Art Critics, Art Historians, Curators, Museums, and Viewers 205
Making Art Ideas Your Own
Bibliography 224
Illustration Credits 239
Index 241

Rezensionen

"This book will engage the serious reader of art theorywith accessible language and interesting imagery andpersonal." (SchoolArts, 1 May 2014)

"This book provides many refreshingly-new ideas about artfrom many people and areas of the world, as well as open-ended,non-dogmatic discussions on many topics." (BizIndia, 10 December 2012)

"This text offers art-interested students and general readers asampling of ideas on a wide range of topics, in an accessible,non-intimidating manner." (Book News, 1 August 2011)

"This book will engage the serious reader of art theory withaccessible language and interesting imagery and personalstories."
(SchoolArts, 1 May 2014)