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Art and the Platonic matrix / Jurgen Lawrenz.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lawrenz, Jurgen.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Art--Philosophy.
- Art.
- Aesthetics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (296 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- For two millennia philosophy has restlessly stalked a fundamental problem-the answer to the question "what is art, really?" Aesthetic discourse, focused on the Platonic Matrix of truth and beauty, arthood and object, imitation and representation, form and idea, has not delivered on its promise, leaving us in bewilderment over principles that are either ignored or contradicted by the arts themselves. In this searching critique, some astonishing faux pas are brought to light. Notably that aesth...
- Contents:
- IN LIEU OF A FOREWORD; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; PROLOGUE; THE PLATONIC MATRIX; BEAUTY, TRUTH AND ART; ART AND IDEA; THE MIMETIC IMPULSE; EXPRESSION, SELF-EXPRESSION, PATHOS; THE LANGUAGE DILEMMA; PERCEPTION AND THE HEURISTIC IMPULSE; "THE FLAW IN THE GLASS"; FELIX LUDENS; SYMBOL, ARCHETYPE, EXPERIENCE; ASPIRATION, INSPIRATION; TOWARDS A NEW PHILOSOPHY OF ART; BIBLIOGRAPHY & INDICES
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [280]-288) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-14282-1
- 9786613142825
- 1-4438-3020-8
- OCLC:
- 821179839
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