Ethics and the Arts / edited by Paul Macneill.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Macneill, Paul., Editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethics.

Philosophy.

Philosophy, general.

Local Subjects:

Ethics.

Philosophy, general.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (273 p.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2014.

Place of Publication:

Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book proposes that the highest expression of ethics is an aesthetic. It suggests that the quintessential performance of any field of practice is an art that captures an ethic beyond any literal statement of values. This is toadvocate for a shift in emphasis,away from current juridical approaches to ethics (ethicalcodes or regulation), toward ethics as an aesthetic practice—away from ethics as a minimal requirement, toward ethics as an aspiration. The book explores the relationship between art and ethics: a subject that has fascinated philosophers from ancient Greece to the present. It explores this relationship in all the arts: literature, the visual arts, film, the performing arts, and music. It also examines current issues raised by ‘hybrid’ artists who are working at the ambiguous intersections between art, bioart and bioethics and challenging ethical limits in working with living materials. In considering these issues the book investigates the potential for art and ethics to be mutually challenged and changed in this meeting. The book is aimed at artists and students of the arts, who may be interested in approaching ethics and the arts in a new way. It is also aimed at students and teachers of ethics and philosophy, as well as those working in bioethics and the health professions. It will have appeal to the ‘general educated reader’ as being current, of considerable interest, and offering a perspective on ethics that goes beyond a professional context to include questions about how one approaches ethics in one’s own life and practices.

Contents:

""Chapter 4: Modern Painting and Morality""""4.1 Introduction""; ""4.2 Morality in �Early Modern� Painting""; ""4.2.1 The Moral Universe: Gathering of the Ashes""; ""4.2.2 Two Bathshebas""; ""4.3 Modern Painting to 1980""; ""4.3.1 The Beginnings of Modern Painting""; ""4.3.2 Rothko""; ""4.3.3 Andy Warhol""; ""4.4 Modern Painting from a Moral Perspective""; ""4.5 Conclusion""; ""References""; ""Chapter 5: The Photograph Not as Proof but as Limit""; ""5.1 Roland Barthes�s Camera Lucida""; ""5.2 Josh Azzarella and Trevor Paglen""; ""5.3 Unknowability, Mystery, and Ethical Viewing""

""References""""Chapter 6: Of Redemption: The Good of Film Experience""; ""6.1 Encountering Cinema""; ""6.2 Intersecting Ethics""; ""6.3 Redeeming Cinema and Ethics""; ""6.4 Risking Redemption""; ""References""; ""Chapter 7: Movies and Medical Ethics""; ""7.1 Introduction""; ""7.2 Film as a Starting Point for Studying Medical Ethics""; ""7.3 Engaging Viewers and Delivering Messages Cinematographically""; ""7.4 Extracted Sequences Illustrate Memorable Moments of a Film�s Narrative""; ""7.5 The Value of Informed Awareness""; ""7.6 Aesthetics; A Valuable Addition to the Message""

""Chapter 10: Burning Daylight : Contemporary Indigenous Dance, Loss and Cultural Intuition""""10.1 Introduction""; ""10.2 Marrugeku""; ""10.3 Burning Daylight Production Outline""; ""10.4 Contemporary Dance in a Context of Loss and Forced Removal""; ""10.4.1 Case Study: Researching Burning Daylight ""; ""10.5 Negotiating the Contemporary in the Native Title Era""; ""10.5.1 Case Study: Rubibi""; ""10.5.2 Case Study: Memory of Tradition""; ""10.6 The Art of Listening""; ""References""; ""Chapter 11: Toward an Intersubjective Ethics of Acting and Actor Training""

""11.1 Considering the Intersubjective Space �Between� in One Performance""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and indexes.

ISBN:

94-017-8816-2

OCLC:

880357831