Art matters / Peter de Bolla.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

De Bolla, Peter, 1957-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arts--Philosophy.

Arts.

Aesthetics.

Physical Description:

ix, 157 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2001.

Summary:

In the face of a great work of art, we so often stand mute, struck dumb. Is this a function--perhaps the first and foremost--of aesthetic experience? Or do we lack the words to say what we feel? Countering current assumptions that art is valued only according to taste or ideology, Peter de Bolla gives a voice--and vocabulary--to the wonder art can inspire. Working toward a better understanding of what it is to be profoundly moved by a work of art, he forces us to reconsider the importance of art works and the singular nature and value of our experience of them.

Notes:

Errata slip inserted.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [149]-153) and index.

ISBN:

0674006496

OCLC:

47181986