A humorous look at how the arts give us pleasure.
KEY FEATURES:
* Sparkling essays by a leading critic on a perennially fascinating topic
* Covers a wide variety of art and artists, including painters, writers, and musicians such as Auden, Rembrandt, and Keith Jarrett.
DESCRIPTION:
How do the arts give us pleasure? Covering a very wide range of artistic works, from Auden to David Lynch, Rembrandt to Edward Weston, and Richard Strauss to Keith Jarrett, Butler offers us an explanation of our enjoyable emotional engagements with literature, music, and painting. Pleasurable in its own right, 'Pleasure and the Arts' presents a sparkling explanation of the enduring interest of artistic expression.
CONTENTS:
Introduction; Jokes, Poems, Understanding; Emotions and Narrative; Beyond Words: Sensation, Abstraction, and Form; Specificity, Fantasy, and Critique
KEY FEATURES:
* Sparkling essays by a leading critic on a perennially fascinating topic
* Covers a wide variety of art and artists, including painters, writers, and musicians such as Auden, Rembrandt, and Keith Jarrett.
DESCRIPTION:
How do the arts give us pleasure? Covering a very wide range of artistic works, from Auden to David Lynch, Rembrandt to Edward Weston, and Richard Strauss to Keith Jarrett, Butler offers us an explanation of our enjoyable emotional engagements with literature, music, and painting. Pleasurable in its own right, 'Pleasure and the Arts' presents a sparkling explanation of the enduring interest of artistic expression.
CONTENTS:
Introduction; Jokes, Poems, Understanding; Emotions and Narrative; Beyond Words: Sensation, Abstraction, and Form; Specificity, Fantasy, and Critique