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Defining art, creating the canon : artistic value in an era of doubt / Paul Crowther.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Crowther, Paul, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Aesthetics.
- Art--Philosophy.
- Art.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (268 pages)
- Other Title:
- Artistic value in an era of doubt
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Clarendon Press ; Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A lively and accessible read, suitable for non-philosophers this book reinvigorates central debates in aesthetics and art theory. The book is split into three parts, Culture and Artistic Value, The Aesthetic and the Artistic, and Distinctive Modes of Imaging.
- Contents:
- Introduction : normative aesthetics and artistic value
- Culture and artistic value
- Cultural exclusion and the definition of art
- Defining art, defending the canon, contesting culture
- The aesthetic and the artistic
- From beauty to art : developing Kant's aesthetics
- The scope and value of the artistic image
- Distinctive modes of imaging
- Twofoldness : pictorial art and the imagination
- Between language and perception : literary metaphor
- Musical meaning and value
- Eternalizing the moment : artistic projections of time
- Conclusion : the status and future of art.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-254) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-969858-9
- 1-281-16069-5
- 9786611160692
- 0-19-152620-7
- 1-4356-2139-5
- OCLC:
- 206933554
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