What artistry can do essays on art and beauty
These 12 essays by Belgian philosopher and theorist Bart Verschaffel - many translated into English for the first time - explore the meaning and relevance of art today. They cover a rich and inventive range of topics, from mockery and laughter to the artwork as a 'gift', and from caricatur...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press
[2022]
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Refractions : at the borders of art history and philosophy. |
| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b47448817*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Half-title page
- Refractions series
- Title page
- Copyright Information
- Contents
- Figures
- Series Editor's Preface
- Preface by John MacArthur
- Introduction
- Part I: Art as a Form of Understanding
- 1. First Ideas on Art, Being Moved and Criticism
- 2. Critical?Art
- 3. What Art Can Do ('Malpertuis' by Jean Ray)
- 4. On the Pleasure of Finding What Is Hidden ('With Hidden Noise' by Marcel Duchamp)
- 5. Memoria: Memory Work and the 'Conversation of Mankind'
- Part II: Aspects of Artistry
- 6. On Laughter, Opinions and Artistic Freedom.
- 7. Notes on the Work of Art as a Gift
- 8. 'Being an Artist Is an Art in Itself': On the 'First Work' and the Notionof 'Oeuvre'
- 9. Double-Speak
- Part III: Elementary Aesthetics
- 10. On Splendour and Modern Beauty
- 11. Fatal Truths: Notes on the Beauty Experience
- 12. On the Aesthetic Gaze, Beautyand the Two Sources of Ugliness
- First Publication
- Notes
- Index.
