Pleasure and the arts : enjoying literature, painting, and music / Christopher Butler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Butler, Christopher, 1940-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aesthetics.

Pleasure.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (257 pages) : color illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

How do the arts give us pleasure? Covering a very wide range of artistic works, from Auden to David Lynch, Rembrandt to Edward Weston, and Richard Strauss to Keith Jarrett, Butler offers us an explanation of our enjoyable emotional engagements with literature, music, and painting. Pleasurable in its own right, Pleasure and the Arts presents a sparkling explanation of the enduring interest of artistic expression. - ;How do the arts give us pleasure? Covering a very wide range of artistic works, from Auden to David Lynch, Rembrandt to Edward Weston, and Richard Strauss to Keith Jarrett

Contents:

Contents; List of Illustrations; Introduction; 1. Jokes, Poems, Understanding; 2. Emotions and Narrative; 3. Beyond Words: Sensation; 4. Beyond Words: Enjoying Abstractions; 5. Beyond Words: Appreciation, Technique, and Form; 6. Specificity, Fantasy, and Critique; Appendix on Beauty; Picture Credits; Index

Notes:

Originally published: 2004.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-282-32819-0

9786612328190

0-19-151609-0

OCLC:

437109420