The Arts And The Definition Of The Human

Author : Joseph Margolis
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2008-09-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780804769860

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The Arts and the Definition of the Human by Joseph Margolis Pdf

The Arts and the Definition of the Human introduces a novel theory that our selves—our thoughts, perceptions, creativity, and other qualities that make us human—are determined by our place in history, and more particularly by our culture and language. Margolis rejects the idea that any concepts or truths remain fixed and objective through the flow of history and reveals that this theory of the human being (or "philosophical anthropology") as culturally determined and changing is necessary to make sense of art. He shows that a painting, sculpture, or poem cannot have a single correct interpretation because our creation and perception of art will always be mitigated by our historical and cultural contexts. Calling upon philosophers ranging from Parmenides and Plato to Kant, Hegel, and Wittgenstein, art historians from Damisch to Elkins, artists from Van Eyck to Michelangelo to Wordsworth to Duchamp, Margolis creates a philosophy of art interwoven with his philosophical anthropology which pointedly challenges prevailing views of the fine arts and the nature of personhood.

Author : Pamela Sachant,Peggy Blood,Jeffery LeMieux,Rita Tekippe
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-27
Category : Art
ISBN : EAN:8596547679363

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Introduction to Art: Design, Context, and Meaning by Pamela Sachant,Peggy Blood,Jeffery LeMieux,Rita Tekippe Pdf

Introduction to Art: Design, Context, and Meaning offers a deep insight and comprehension of the world of Art. Contents: What is Art? The Structure of Art Significance of Materials Used in Art Describing Art - Formal Analysis, Types, and Styles of Art Meaning in Art - Socio-Cultural Contexts, Symbolism, and Iconography Connecting Art to Our Lives Form in Architecture Art and Identity Art and Power Art and Ritual Life - Symbolism of Space and Ritual Objects, Mortality, and Immortality Art and Ethics

Author : Mark Johnson
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2012-06-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780226026992

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The Meaning of the Body by Mark Johnson Pdf

In The Meaning of the Body, Mark Johnson continues his pioneering work on the exciting connections between cognitive science, language, and meaning first begun in the classic Metaphors We Live By. Johnson uses recent research into infant psychology to show how the body generates meaning even before self-consciousness has fully developed. From there he turns to cognitive neuroscience to further explore the bodily origins of meaning, thought, and language and examines the many dimensions of meaning—including images, qualities, emotions, and metaphors—that are all rooted in the body’s physical encounters with the world. Drawing on the psychology of art and pragmatist philosophy, Johnson argues that all of these aspects of meaning-making are fundamentally aesthetic. He concludes that the arts are the culmination of human attempts to find meaning and that studying the aesthetic dimensions of our experience is crucial to unlocking meaning's bodily sources. Throughout, Johnson puts forth a bold new conception of the mind rooted in the understanding that philosophy will matter to nonphilosophers only if it is built on a visceral connection to the world. “Mark Johnson demonstrates that the aesthetic and emotional aspects of meaning are fundamental—central to conceptual meaning and reason, and that the arts show meaning-making in its fullest realization. If you were raised with the idea that art and emotion were external to ideas and reason, you must read this book. It grounds philosophy in our most visceral experience.”—George Lakoff, author of Moral Politics

Author : Alva Noë
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781429945257

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Strange Tools by Alva Noë Pdf

A philosopher makes the case for thinking of works of art as tools for investigating ourselves In his new book, Strange Tools: Art and Human Nature, the philosopher and cognitive scientist Alva Noë raises a number of profound questions: What is art? Why do we value art as we do? What does art reveal about our nature? Drawing on philosophy, art history, and cognitive science, and making provocative use of examples from all three of these fields, Noë offers new answers to such questions. He also shows why recent efforts to frame questions about art in terms of neuroscience and evolutionary biology alone have been and will continue to be unsuccessful.

Author : Deborah Gustlin
Publisher : Cognella Academic Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017-08-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1516503430

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Art Appreciation by Deborah Gustlin Pdf

Creative Art: Methods and Materials educates readers about a variety of art methods and the ways different civilizations have used them in artistic expression. Each of the fourteen chapters is designed around a specific art method and material, and includes examples of art works and the artists who created them. Students learn about bronze casting, stone carving, clay sculpture, woodcuts and posters, glass work, and installation art. Each method is matched to artists both ancient and modern. Rather than adhering to a standard approach that focuses on white, male, European artists, the book broadens the student's perspective by including often overlooked female artists. Global in approach and comprehensive in coverage of arts forms, representations, and styles throughout history, Creative Art has been developed for sixteen-week courses in art appreciation, or introductory survey courses in art history.

Author : Edward Howard Griggs
Publisher : Literary Licensing, LLC
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1497937213

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Art and the Human Spirit by Edward Howard Griggs Pdf

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1908 Edition.

Author : Wassily Kandinsky
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 111 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2012-04-20
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780486132488

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Concerning the Spiritual in Art by Wassily Kandinsky Pdf

Pioneering work by the great modernist painter, considered by many to be the father of abstract art and a leader in the movement to free art from traditional bonds. 12 illustrations.

Author : Joni Maya Cherbo,Ruth Ann Stewart,Margaret Jane Wyszomirski
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2008-05-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780813545059

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Understanding the Arts and Creative Sector in the United States by Joni Maya Cherbo,Ruth Ann Stewart,Margaret Jane Wyszomirski Pdf

The arts and creative sector is one of the nation's broadest, most important, and least understood social and economic assets, encompassing both nonprofit arts and cultural organizations, for-profit creative companies, such as advertising agencies, film producers, and commercial publishers, and community-based artistic activities. The thirteen essays in this timely book demonstrate why interest in the arts and creative sector has accelerated in recent years, and the myriad ways that the arts are crucial to the social and national agenda and the critical issues and policies that relate to their practice. Leading experts in the field show, for example, how arts and cultural policies are used to enhance urban revitalization, to encourage civic engagement, to foster new forms of historic preservation, to define national identity, to advance economic development, and to regulate international trade in cultural goods and services. Illuminating key issues and reflecting the rapid growth of the field of arts and cultural policy, this book will be of interest to students at both the undergraduate and graduate levels, to arts educators and management professionals, government agency and foundation officials, and researchers and academics in the cultural policy field.

Author : George Lansing Raymond
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Aesthetics
ISBN : PRNC:32101047157019

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Art in Theory by George Lansing Raymond Pdf

Author : Ellen Dissanayake
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780295998381

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What Is Art For? by Ellen Dissanayake Pdf

Every human society displays some form of behavior that can be called “art,” and in most societies other than our own the arts play an integral part in social life. Those who wish to understand art in its broadest sense, as a universal human endowment, need to go beyond modern Western elitist notions that disregard other cultures and ignore the human species’ four-million-year evolutionary history. This book offers a new and unprecedentedly comprehensive theory of the evolutionary significance of art. Art, meaning not only visual art, but music, poetic language, dance, and performance, is for the first time regarded from a biobehavioral or ethical viewpoint. It is shown to be a biological necessity in human existence and fundamental characteristic of the human species. In this provocative study, Ellen Dissanayake examines art along with play and ritual as human behaviors that “make special,” and proposes that making special is an inherited tendency as intrinsic to the human species as speech and toolmaking. She claims that the arts evolved as means of making socially important activities memorable and pleasurable, and thus have been essential to human survival. Avoiding simplism and reductionism, this original synthetic approach permits a fresh look at old questions about the origins, nature, purpose, and value of art. It crosses disciplinary boundaries and integrates a number of divers fields: human ethology; evolutionary biology; the psychology and philosophy of art; physical and cultural anthropology; “primitive” and prehistoric art; Western cultural history; and children’s art. The final chapter, “From Tradition to Aestheticism,” explores some of the ways in which modern Western society has diverged from other societies--particularly the type of society in which human beings evolved--and considers the effects of the aberrance on our art and our attitudes toward art. This book is addressed to readers who have a concerned interest in the arts or in human nature and the state of modern society.

Author : Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-16
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781528769648

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What Is Art and Essays on Art by Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy Pdf

Originally published in 1930, this book contains the widely respected essay 'What Is Art', by the well-known Russian writer Leo Tolstoy, and is highly recommended for inclusion on the bookshelf of any fan of his works. Many of these earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Author : John Dewey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1935
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Art as Experience by John Dewey Pdf

Author : Alain Botton,John Armstrong
Publisher : Phaidon Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-24
Category : Art
ISBN : 0714872784

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Art as Therapy by Alain Botton,John Armstrong Pdf

Two authorities on popular culture reveal the ways in which art can enhance mood and enrich lives - now available in paperback This passionate, thought-provoking, often funny, and always-accessible book proposes a new way of looking at art, suggesting that it can be useful, relevant, and therapeutic. Through practical examples, the world-renowned authors argue that certain great works of art have clues as to how to manage the tensions and confusions of modern life. Chapters on love, nature, money, and politics show how art can help with many common difficulties, from forging good relationships to coming to terms with mortality.

Author : Gene C. Fant Jr.
Publisher : Crossway
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2012-05-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781433531262

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The Liberal Arts by Gene C. Fant Jr. Pdf

An excellent liberal arts education holds purpose-giving and society-shaping power. But how do we tap into that power and make the most of liberal learning for the glory of God? Professor Gene Fant teaches how to maximize a liberal arts education by outlining its history, criticisms, purposes, and benefits. Ultimately, he shows that liberal learning equips us to become spiritually and intellectually empathetic people who are passionate about serving God, the church, and the world.

Author : Joseph Margolis
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780271024479

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Moral Philosophy After 9/11 by Joseph Margolis Pdf

Were the perpetrators of the 9/11 attacks courageous &"freedom fighters&" or despicable terrorist murderers? These opposing characterizations reveal in extreme form the incompatibility between different moral visions that underlie many conflicts in the world today, conflicts that challenge us to consider how moral disputes may be resolved. Eschewing the resort to universal moral principles favored by traditional Anglo-American analytic philosophy, Joseph Margolis sets out to sketch an alternative approach that accepts the lack of any neutral ground or privileged normative perspective for deciding moral disputes.This &"second-best&" morality nevertheless aspires to achieve an &"objectively&" valid resolution through a dialectical procedure of reasoning toward a modus vivendi, an accommodation of prudential interests that are rooted in the customs and practices of the societies in conflict. In working out this approach, Margolis engages with a wide range of thinkers, from Plato, Aristotle, Kant, and Hegel through Nietzsche, Heidegger, Levinas, Rawls, Habermas, MacIntyre, Rorty, and Nussbaum, and his argument is enlivened by reference to many specific moral issues, such as abortion, the control of Kashmir, and the continuing struggle between the Muslim world and the West.