Theory of the art object / Paul Crowther.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Crowther, Paul, author.

Series:

Routledge advances in art and visual studies.

Routledge advances in art and visual studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aesthetics--Philosophy.

Aesthetics.

Object (Aesthetics).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (187 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing (UK), 2026.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon-on-Thames, Oxfordshire : Routledge, 2019.

System Details:

text file rdaft

Summary:

Meaning in the visual arts centers on how the physical work makes its content or presence visible. The art object is fundamental. Indeed, the different object forms of each visual medium allows our experience of space-time, and our relations to other people, to be aesthetically embodied in unique ways. Through these embodiments, visual art compensates for what is otherwise existentially lost, and becomes part of what makes life worth living. The present book shows this by discussing a range of visual art forms, namely pictorial representation, abstraction, sculpture and assemblage works, land art, architecture, photography, and varieties of digital art.

Contents:

Pictorial art and presentness

Abstract art and transperceptual space

In and through space : sculpture, assemblage, and installation art

Land art : reciprocities of site and formation

Embodiment and architectural cognition

The aesthetic space of photography

Digital objects, aesthetic phenomena.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

0-429-26432-1

0-429-55488-5

9780429264320

OCLC:

1111577665