Aesthetics / Colin Lyas.

Format:

Book

Thesis/Dissertation

Author/Creator:

Lyas, Colin.

Series:

Fundamentals of philosophy (London, England)

Fundamentals of philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aesthetics.

Art--Philosophy.

Art.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (252 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; Bristol, Pa. : UCL Press, 1997.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book presents an up-to-date introduction to the subject that captures the excitement and passion of art itself. It opens by exploring why art is important to us and goes on to grip the reader with a discussion of all of the areas central to aesthetics: aesthetic experience, representation, expression, definition of art, evaluation, interpretation, structuralism and post-structuralism, truth and morality. It draws upon the great thinkers on art, Plato and Kant, Croce and Beardsley, including the most recent iconoclastic views of Barthes and Derrida.

Contents:

Preliminaries; Contents; Preface; Introduction: the disconsolations of philosophy; 1 Anglo-Kantian attitudes; 2 Nature's mirror: imitation, representation and imagination; 3 Ne'er so well expressed (I); 4 Tales from the Vienna Woods; 5 Ne'er so well expressed (II); 6 The proof of the pudding; 7 The empty tomb and the resurrection of the artist; 8 The structures of the self-sufficient word; 9 Helen's Beethoven; 10 The point of it all; Envoi; References; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Thesis (doctoral)--Uppsala University, 1995.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-231) and index.

ISBN:

9789155435066

9155435068

9781135362966

1135362963

9781135362973

1135362971

9781280401435

1280401435

9780203136829

0203136829

OCLC:

319493176