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Art without borders : a philosophical exploration of art and humanity / Ben-Ami Scharfstein.
De Gruyter University of Chicago Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Scharfstein, Ben-Ami, 1919-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Art, Comparative.
- Art--Philosophy.
- Art.
- Aesthetics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (558 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- People all over the world make art and take pleasure in it, and they have done so for millennia. But acknowledging that art is a universal part of human experience leads us to some big questions: Why does it exist? Why do we enjoy it? And how do the world's different art traditions relate to art and to each other?Art Without Borders is an extraordinary exploration of those questions, a profound and personal meditation on the human hunger for art and a dazzling synthesis of the whole range of inquiry into its significance. Esteemed thinker Ben-Ami Scharfstein's encycl
- Contents:
- An open aesthetics
- Selfless tradition
- Egocentric innovation
- Intersecting worlds and identities
- The common universe of aesthetic discourse.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 439-519) and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)
- ISBN:
- 9786612240003
- 9781282240001
- 1282240005
- 9780226736112
- 0226736113
- OCLC:
- 435911863
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