Defining Art, Creating the Canon: Artistic Value In An Era Of Doubt - Couverture souple

Crowther, Paul

 
9780199698585: Defining Art, Creating the Canon: Artistic Value In An Era Of Doubt
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0199698589 ISBN 13 : 9780199698585
Editeur : Oxford University Press, Usa, 2012

Synopsis

What is art; why should we value it; and what allows us to say that one work is better than another?

Traditional answers have emphasized aesthetic form. But this has been challenged by institutional definitions of art and postmodern critique. The idea of distinctively artistic value based on aesthetic criteria is at best doubted, and at worst, rejected. This book, however, champions the traditional notions. It restores the mimetic definition of art on the basis of factors which traditional answers neglect, namely the conceptual link between art's aesthetic value and 'non-exhibited' epistemological and historical relations.

These factors converge on an expanded notion of the artistic image (a notion which can even encompass music, abstract art, and some conceptual idioms). The image's style serves to interpret its subject-matter. If this style is original (in comparative historical terms) it can manifest that special kind of aesthetic unity which we call art. Appreciation of this involves a heightened interaction of capacities (such as imagination and understanding) which are basic to knowledge and personal identity. By negotiating these factors, it is possible to define art and its canonic dimensions objectively, and to show that aforementioned sceptical alternatives are incomplete and self-contradictory.

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À propos de l?auteur

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

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Éditeur
Oxford University Press, Usa
Date d'édition
2012
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0199698589
ISBN 13 
9780199698585
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
274
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9780199210688: Defining Art, Creating the Canon: Artistic Value in an Era of Doubt

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ISBN 10 :  0199210683 ISBN 13 :  9780199210688
Editeur : Oxford University Press, 2007
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