Aesthetic creation / Nick Zangwill.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zangwill, Nick, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art--Philosophy.

Art.

Aesthetics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 192 pages)

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Pr., 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

What is the purpose of a work of art? What drives us to make art? Why do we value art and consume it? Nick Zangwill argues that we cannot understand the nature of art without first having answers to these fundamental questions. On his view, which he dubs 'the Aesthetic Creation Theory', a work of art is something created for a particular aesthetic purpose. More specifically, the function of art is to have certain aesthetic properties in virtue of its non-aesthetic properties,and this function arises because of the artist's insight into the nature of these dependence relations and her intention

Contents:

Contents; Preface; Introduction; Summary of Chapters; 1. Groundrules in the Philosophy of Art; 2. Art as Aesthetic Creation; 3. Are There Counterexamples to Aesthetic Theories of Art?; 4. Art Essence, Identity and Survival; 5. Aesthetic Functionalism; 6. Art and Audience; 7. Against the Sociology of Art; Acknowledgements; Bibliography; Subject Index; Author Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-964530-2

1-281-16423-2

9786611164232

0-19-153216-9

1-4356-2262-6

OCLC:

183915563