Dan Nesher

On Beauty of Artworks as Aesthetic True Representations of Reality

A Collection of Pragmaticist Inquires into the Epistemology of Artistic Creation and Evaluation of Artworks

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book is a collection of pragmatist inquiries into the epistemology of artistic creation and evaluation of artworks. It offers a new concept of aesthetics and beauty of artworks. Aesthetics is the mode of artistic representation of reality, and artworks are beautiful when proven aesthetic true representations of reality.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hamilton Books
• Seitenzahl: 370
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Mai 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 536g
• ISBN-13: 9780761872955
• ISBN-10: 0761872957
• Artikelnr.: 63431786

Autorenporträt

Dan Nesher is an emeritus member of the Department of Philosophy, University of Haifa.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: The Beauty of Artwork Is in Its Aesthetic True Representation of
Reality:
Epistemology of Creation and Evaluation of Artwork
Chapter 2: It is an Illusion that Artworks Are Fictitious Illusions as they
are Actually
Aesthetic Modes of Representing Reality
Chapter 3: Epistemology of Aesthetic Experience: Criticizing and
Reconstructing Kant's
Aesthetic Theories of Genius Creativity and Judgment of Beauty
Chapter 4: Free Creation of Artwork is the Determinate Self-Control of
Proving its True
Interpretation and Representation of Reality
Chapter 5: How to Square (Normo, CP:2.7) Peirceanly the Kantian Circularity
in the
Epistemology of Aesthetics as a Normative Science of Creating and
Evaluating the Beauty of
Artworks
Chapter 6: The Role of Productive Imagination in Creating Artworks and
Discovering
Scientific Hypotheses
Chapter 7: On Post-Modern Artworks: A New Aesthetic Genre or Rather a
Pseudo Concept of
Art, and then "What, After All, Is a Work of Art?"
Chapter 8: Epilog: Can we Theorize some Bizarre Aesthetic Domains - The
Beauty of Music
Aesthetics, Mathematics-Theoretic, and Human-Ethic?
Bibliography
Index
About the Author