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Techne theory : a new language for art / Henry Staten.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Staten, Henry, 1946- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Art--Philosophy.
- Art.
- Creative ability--Philosophy.
- Creative ability.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (217 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2019.
- Summary:
- Only since the Romantic period has art been understood in terms of an ineffable aesthetic quality of things like poems, paintings, and sculptures, and the art-maker as endowed with an inexplicable power of creation. From the Greeks to the 18th century, art was conceived as techne-- the skill and know-how by which things and states of affairs are ordered. Techne Theory shows how to use this concept to cut through the Romantic notion of art as a kind of magic by returning to the original sense of art as techne, the standpoint of the person who actually knows how to make a work of art. Understood as techne, art-making, like all other cultural accomplishments, is a form of work performed by an artisan who has inherited the know-how of previous generations of artisans. Along the way, Techne Theory cuts through the humanist-structuralist impasse over the question of artistic agency and explains what 'form' really means.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Dedication
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Part One Fundamentals
- Chapter One The techne standpoint
- Chapter Two Art and evolution
- Evolution of the work of art
- Production according to techne
- Hadamard's essay
- Creation and the 'combination of ideas'
- Chapter Three The artist's touch
- The artist's touch
- Intuiting the techne-limit
- Techne-in-general
- Part Two Greek origins
- Chapter Four How Plato (despite himself) invented techne theory
- Techne and physis
- Looking towards the form
- The doctrine of use
- Chapter Five From Aristotle to extended mind
- Those stubborn forms
- Soul, hand, tool
- The birth of tragedy, according to Aristotle
- Techne in an archaeological light
- Flexible forms
- Part Three Where do poems come from?
- Chapter Six A Romantic view: Seamus Heaney
- The unresolved puzzle
- Inseminating the poem-egg
- The example of Wordsworth
- Earthworm knowledge
- Chapter Seven Excursus on language
- Chapter Eight An anti-Romantic view: Paul Valéry
- Musicalized states and dreamsongs
- Intrasomatic inspiration
- Slow and quick creation
- Interior universes
- Part Four Studies in modernist techne
- Chapter Nine T. J. Clark's Picasso
- The road to Guernica
- Integration of the outside
- The culminating challenge
- The movement towards form
- Chapter Ten What's radical about radical painting?
- Deducing the functional essence
- The importance of Ryman
- How Marioni does it
- The body of light
- Intimate relations
- Chapter Eleven The techne of Kafka's Metamorphosis
- The narrative voice
- Gregor's voice, or narrator's voice?
- Gregor and his family
- The judgment
- The unknown nourishment
- Part Five Techne metatheory
- Chapter Twelve Universal design space and the lines of force
- Emergent design.
- Adjacency in design space
- Lines of force
- Finding 'join'
- Situated subjects in technosocial design space
- Self-organizing forms
- Index
- Copyright Page.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781472592927
- 1472592921
- 9781472592910
- 1472592913
- OCLC:
- 1080201808
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