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Art and essence / edited by Stephen Davies and Ananta Ch. Sukla.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Studies in art, culture, and communities
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Aesthetics.
- Art--Philosophy.
- Art.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 253 pages ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2003.
- Contents:
- Part I Theoretical Perspectives 1
- Chapter 1 Essential Distinctions for Art Theorists / Stephen Davies 3
- Chapter 2 Art, Essence, and Wittgenstein / Graham McFee 17
- Chapter 3 Nature, Gardens, Art: The Problem of Appreciation / Stephanie Ross 39
- Part II Historical Perspectives 53
- Chapter 4 Art and Beauty in Antiquity and the Middle Ages / Liberato Santoro-Brienza 55
- Chapter 5 Art and the Aesthetic: Hume, Kant, and the Essence of Art / Dabney Townsend 75
- Chapter 6 Hegel and Nietzsche on Life and Dramatic Character / Robert Wicks 95
- Part III Cross-Cultural Perspectives 111
- Chapter 7 Abhinavagupta's Definition of Art: Ontology versus Essentialism / Ananta Ch. Sukla 113
- Chapter 8 Representing the Essence of Objects: Art in the Japanese Aesthetic Tradition / Yuriko Saito 125
- Chapter 9 Western and Non-Western Concepts of Art: Universality and Authenticity / Larry Shiner 143
- Part IV Contemporary Perspectives 157
- Chapter 10 Historical Definitions of Art / Kathleen Stock 159
- Chapter 11 The Ontology of Art Interpretation / Robert Stecker 177
- Chapter 12 Aesthetification as a Feminist Strategy: On Art's Relational Politics / Monique Roelofs 193
- Chapter 13 Universalism, Evolutionary Psychology, and Aesthetics / Denis Dutton 213.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [227]-238) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0275977668
- OCLC:
- 50773135
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