Art and representation : contributions to contemporary aesthetics / edited by Ananta Ch. Sukla.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sukla, Ananta Charana, 1942-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Representation (Philosophy).

Art--Philosophy.

Art.

Aesthetics, Modern.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 282 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2024

Place of Publication:

Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Concentrating on scholarship over the past four decades, this multidisciplinary approach to representation considers conceptual issues about representation and applies different theories to various arts. Following an introduction that traces the historical debates surrounding the concept of representation, Part One focuses on representation and language, epistemology, politics and history, sacrificial rites, possible world and postmodernism. Part Two applies current theories to painting, photography, literature, music, dance, and film. Writings highlight the vital role representation plays in the formation and appreciation of major genres of art. This work will appeal to art philosophy and aesthetics scholars and to cultural studies and linguistic scholars. Rather than advocate certain theories, the essays illustrate the inherent complexities of representation.

Contents:

Cover

ART AND REPRESENTATION

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

I

II

III

IV

V

VI

NOTES

PART ONE Concepts and Faculties

1 Representation in Language

PICTORIAL, PRESENTATIONAL, AND REPRESENTATIONAL FORM

OLD AND NEW WAYS OF IDEAS

ANOTHER IDEA OF IDEA

FORMS OF LIFE

WORLD PICTURES

LANGUAGE AND THE VERY IDEA OF A CONCEPTUAL SCHEME

SENDING ON REPRESENTATION

2 Representation and Epistemology

THE PERFORMING ARTS

3 Political and Historical Representation

INTRODUCTION

REPRESENTATION

IMPLICATIONS OF THE FOREGOING

FOUR CONSEQUENCES

FROM REPRESENTATIVE TO PLEBISCITARY DEMOCRACY

WHERE TO FIND THE REMEDY FOR OUR PRESENT POLITICAL ILLS?

CONCLUSION

4 Representation in Sacrificial Rites

RELIGION, RITUAL, AND SACRIFICE

THE STRUCTURALISTS

THE PERSISTENCE OF RELIGION

RECAPTURING THE RELIGIOUS CONTEXT OF DURKHEIMIAN THOUGHT

SACRIFICIAL RHETORIC

WHAT KIND OF THEORY?

PERSISTENCE OF SACRIFICIAL RHETORIC

5 Possible World and Representation

POSSIBLE WORLDS AND MODALITY

POSSIBLE AND IMPOSSIBLE WORLDS

MODAL REALISM AND CONCRETE WORLDS

REFERENCES

6 Postmodernism and Representation

POST-METAPHYSICAL REPRESENTATION: THE LOST GROUND OF CRITIQUE?

DERRIDA DECONSTRUCTING THE CENTER

From Logocentric to Postmodern Linguistics

An Epochal Genealogy of Writing

Semiotic Production

The Conditions of Hermeneutic Suspicion

RORTY'S ANTI-FOUNDATIONAL SKEPTICISM

Beyond Truth and the Good

Rorty's Epistemic Agenda

Representation without Essences

FOUCAULT'S POWERS OF DISCOURSE

The Pragmatic Conditions of History

The Constitution of Objects

The Problem of Postfoundational Critique

THE NECESSARY CONDITIONS OF CRITIQUE

ADORNO'S CRITICAL REPRESENTATIONS.

Foundations without a Method

Formal Necessity as Foundational Contradiction

RECONSTRUCTING THE FOUNDATIONS OF REPRESENTATION AND CRITIQUE

NOTE

PART TWO Aesthetics and Arts

7 Some Current Philosophical Theories of Pictorial Representation

8 A Causal Theory of Pictorial Representation

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

9 Painting, Photography, and Representation

MATCHING

SIMULATION

THE INTENTIONALITY OF PICTURES

REPRESENTATION, PAINTING, AND PHOTOGRAPHY

10 Representation in Literatur

11 Musical Representation

THE MUSICAL REPRESENTATION OF SOUNDS

MUSIC AND DYNAMIC PROCESSES

DRAMATIC MUSIC AND SONGS

THE REPRESENTATION OF EMOTIONS IN MUSIC

ABSTRACT INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC

MUSIC WITH DESCRIPTIVE TITLES AND PROGRAMS

REPRESENTATIONS OF MUSIC WITHIN MUSIC

12 Representation in Dance: Reference and Resemblance

REFERENCE

REPRESENTATION AND EXPRESSION

13 Film and Representation

TRANSPARENT REALISM

REPRESENTATIONALISM

THE LOGIC OF SEEING

14 Representation in Painting and Drama: Arguments from Indian Aesthetics

PREFACE

REPRESENTATION AS ILLUSION

REPRESENTATION AS ARTIFICIAL REPRODUCTION/REPLICA/RE-PRESENTATION

REPRESENTATION AS PERFORMANCE/DETERMINATE PRESENTATION OF THE INDETERMINATE/ILLUSTRATIVE TOKEN OF TYPE

15 Representation, Representativeness, and Non-Representational Art

VII

Selected Bibliography

Author/Name Index

Term/Concept Index

About the Editor and Contributors.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-268) and indexes.

ISBN:

9798400614514

978031300062X

9780313000621

031300062X

OCLC:

49730009