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Art without borders : a philosophical exploration of art and humanity / Ben-Ami Scharfstein.
LIBRA N7428.5 .S336 2009
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Scharfstein, Ben-Ami, 1919-2019.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Art, Comparative.
- Art--Philosophy.
- Art.
- Aesthetics.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 543 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2009.
- Contents:
- 1 An Open Aesthetics 1
- Why There Is Art
- The Aesthetic Dimension of Life
- Being Aware
- Seeing
- Remembering
- Preferring
- Forgetting Self
- Grasping
- Theorizing
- 2 Selfless Tradition 73
- Tradition, Traditionalism
- Problems Anthropologists Encounter and Create
- The Anthropology of Art
- Ceremonial Celebrations of Life
- Memory Preserved
- Authenticity
- Ephebism
- Four Symbolic Images
- From Apprentices to Masters
- Exacting Rules
- Classicism and Archaism
- Chinese Connoisseur, Archaist, Collector
- Creative Copying from the Chinese Past
- Classicism in European Art
- Creative Copying from the European Past
- The Ideal of the Anonymous Craftsman
- The Metaphysical Ideal
- 3 Egocentric Innovation 181
- Egocentricity against Tradition
- Inspiration, Heroism, and Uniqueness
- Islamic Hero-Artists
- Hero-Artists of the European Renaissance
- "Genius"
- Genius, Melancholy, Madness
- The Romantic/Egocentric Artist
- Chinese Romantic/Egocentric Amateurs
- Indian Romantic/Egocentric Artists
- "Primitive" Romantic/Egocentric Artists
- African Artists' Creative Egocentricity
- All Alike, All Different
- 4 Intersecting Worlds and Identities 264
- Creative Chaos
- The Camera's Liberating Light
- Historical Relativity
- The Encompassing Influence of Japan
- Gauguin and Other Savages
- European Borrowing
- Japanese and Chinese Borrowing
- The Excessive Past of Chinese and Western Art
- Symbolic Deaths and Erasures of the Past
- Modern "Primitives": Creating and Debating Identities
- 5 The Common Universe of Aesthetic Discourse 360
- Human Perceptual and Emotional Responses
- Old and New Criteria of Judgment
- Fame and Price
- Diminishing the Subjectivity of Judgment
- Local Art and Universal Art
- Judging Art Fairly
- Fusion, Oscillation, Realism, Equilibrium, Beauty
- The Snow Woman as a Universal Paradigm
- The West: Intimations of Neoplatonism
- Africa: Statue-like Beauty and Goodness and Clarity
- India: Depersonalized Emotion
- China: Reverberations of the Life-Breath
- Japan: Beauty Tempered by Regret
- The Common Universe of Aesthetic Discourse
- Final Thoughts.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 439-519) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780226736099
- 0226736091
- OCLC:
- 232656935
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