Dave Davies

eBook, PDF

Art as Performance (eBook, PDF)

Beschreibung

In this richly argued and provocative book, David Davies elaborates and defends a broad conceptual framework for thinking about the arts that reveals important continuities and discontinuities between traditional and modern art, and between different artistic disciplines.

• Elaborates and defends a broad conceptual framework for thinking about the arts.
• Offers a provocative view about the kinds of things that artworks are and how they are to be understood.
• Reveals important continuities and discontinuities between traditional and modern art.
• Highlights core topics in aesthetics and art theory, including traditional theories about the nature of art, aesthetic appreciation, artistic intentions, performance, and artistic meaning.

Technische Details

• Geräte: PC
• mit Kopierschutz
• Größe: 0.76MB

Barrierefreiheit

• Text-to-Speech

Autor

David Davies is Associate Professor of Philosophy at McGill University and has published widely on topics in philosophy of art, metaphysics, philosophy of language, and philosophy of mind.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley-ISTE
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Mai 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781405143646
• Artikelnr.: 38282865

Rezensionen

"David Davies's Art as Performance is itself quite aperformance. While agreeing with aesthetic contextualism'srejection of empiricism in aesthetics, it presents a sophisticatedand ingenious critique of, and alternative to, even the mostenlightened contextualism about the nature, ontology, and value ofart, holding that artworks are, all of them, performances byartists, rather than objects made by artists. Davies'sarguments will require, and will richly reward, the most carefulattention from his fellow aestheticians." Jerrold Levinson,University of Maryland

"David Davies brings philosophical rigor and fine-grainedanalytical reasoning to live and pressing debates about thefundamental nature of art. He offers a striking and original thesisas well as an illuminating presentation of the issues. A compellingperformance!"

Peter Lamarque, University of York