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The Space that Separates: A Realist Theory of Art

Author : Nick Wilson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781317432173

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The Space that Separates: A Realist Theory of Art by Nick Wilson Pdf

The Space that Separates: A Realist Theory of Art radically challenges our assumptions about what art is, what art does, who is doing it, and why it matters. Rejecting the modernist and market-driven misconception that art is only what artists do, Wilson instead presents a realist case for living artfully. Art is defined as the skilled practice of giving shareable form to our experiences of being-in-relation with the real; that is to say, the causally generative domain of the world that extends beyond our direct observation, comprising relations, structures, mechanisms, possibilities, powers, processes, systems, forces, values, ways of being. In communicating such aesthetic experience we behold life’s betweenness – "the space that separates", so coming to know ourselves as connected. Providing the first dedicated and comprehensive account of art and aesthetics from a critical realist perspective – Aesthetic Critical Realism (ACR), Wilson argues for a profound paradigm shift in how we understand and care for culture in terms of our system(s) of value recognition. Fortunately, we have just the right tool to help us achieve this transformation – and it’s called art. Offering novel explanatory accounts of art, aesthetic experience, value, play, culture, creativity, artistic truth and beauty, this book will appeal to a wide audience of students and scholars of art, aesthetics, human development, philosophy and critical realism, as well as cultural practitioners and policy-makers.

Wittgenstein, Theory and the Arts

Author : Richard Allen,Malcolm Turvey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2011-02-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781135199517

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Wittgenstein, Theory and the Arts by Richard Allen,Malcolm Turvey Pdf

This is the first full exploration of the implications of Wittgenstein's philosophy for understanding the arts and cultural criticism. These original essays by philosophers and critics address key philosophical topics in the study of the arts and culture, such as humanism, criticism, psychology, painting, film and ethics. All exemplify Wittgenstein's method of conceptual investigation and highlight his notion of philosophy as a cure.

All About Process

Author : Kim Grant
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2017-02-28
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780271079479

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All About Process by Kim Grant Pdf

In recent years, many prominent and successful artists have claimed that their primary concern is not the artwork they produce but the artistic process itself. In this volume, Kim Grant analyzes this idea and traces its historical roots, showing how changing concepts of artistic process have played a dominant role in the development of modern and contemporary art. This astute account of the ways in which process has been understood and addressed examines canonical artists such as Monet, Cézanne, Matisse, and De Kooning, as well as philosophers and art theorists such as Henri Focillon, R. G. Collingwood, and John Dewey. Placing “process art” within a larger historical context, Grant looks at the changing relations of the artist’s labor to traditional craftsmanship and industrial production, the status of art as a commodity, the increasing importance of the body and materiality in art making, and the nature and significance of the artist’s role in modern society. In doing so, she shows how process is an intrinsic part of aesthetic theory that connects to important contemporary debates about work, craft, and labor. Comprehensive and insightful, this synthetic study of process in modern and contemporary art reveals how artists’ explicit engagement with the concept fits into a broader narrative of the significance of art in the industrial and postindustrial world.

Theory of the Art Object

Author : Paul Crowther,Taylor & Francis Group
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1032177756

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Theory of the Art Object by Paul Crowther,Taylor & Francis Group Pdf

Meaning in the visual arts centers on how the physical work makes its content or presence visible. The art object is fundamental.

A Theory of Art

Author : Karol Berger
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Aesthetics
ISBN : 9780195158526

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A Theory of Art by Karol Berger Pdf

This philosophical theory of art has three main objectives: to shift the focus of aesthetics from What is art? to What is art for?; to describe the social and historical situation of art today; and to combine aesthetics with poetics and hermeneutics.

Theory of Performing Arts

Author : André Helbo
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1987-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789027224095

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Theory of Performing Arts by André Helbo Pdf

n recent years, the post structuralist theories seem to have created a split in theatrological research. But, as André Helbo analyses in this book , a dialectic theory of the semiotic and the symbolic exchange bring to light a specific paradigm. From his wide experience as a semiotician and a theatrologist, the author has developed an analysis for the theory of spectacle. Focusing his study on a critical theory of the performing arts, and examining the fundamental controversies, he then offers new perspectives and new instruments of analysis: the social aspects, readability/visibility, coherence, the spectacle contract.

The End of Art Theory

Author : Victor Burgin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1986-05-02
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781349182022

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The End of Art Theory by Victor Burgin Pdf

Art theory', understood as those forms of aesthetics, art history and criticism which began in the Enlightenment and culminated in 'high modernism', is now at an end. These essays, examining the interdependencies of advertising, film, painting and photography, constitute a call for a 'new art theory' - a practice of writing whose end is to contribute to a general 'theory of representations': an understanding of the modes and means of symbolic articulation of our forms of sociality and subjectivity.

The Theory of the Arts

Author : Francis Edward Sparshott
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 742 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781400857012

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The Theory of the Arts by Francis Edward Sparshott Pdf

In a systematic overview of classical and modern contributions to aesthetics, Professor Sparshott argues that all four lines of theory, and no others, are necessary to coherent thinking about art. Originally published in 1982. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Art in Theory 1815-1900

Author : Charles Harrison,Paul Wood,Jason Gaiger
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 1128 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1998-03-16
Category : Art
ISBN : STANFORD:36105022800713

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Art in Theory 1815-1900 by Charles Harrison,Paul Wood,Jason Gaiger Pdf

Art in Theory 1648-1815 provides a wide-ranging and comprehensive collection of documents on the theory of art from the founding of the French Academy until the end of the Napoleonic Wars.

Art Theory for Beginners

Author : Richard Osborne,Dan Sturgis
Publisher : For Beginners (For Beginners)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Art
ISBN : 1934389471

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Art Theory for Beginners by Richard Osborne,Dan Sturgis Pdf

From Paleolithic cave-painting to postmodernism, Art Theory For Beginners/i> is a concise and entertaining survey of the major historical and current debates on art. Painters, theorists and philosophers are all included to show how the idea of art has developed over the last 5,000 years. Art is a visual representation of a range of concepts, stories and emotions, including curiosity, humanity, political statements, and the Self. Art Theory for Beginners examines and explains the development of the different ways in which people study, interpret and appreciate art in its rich variety of forms. Art Theory For Beginners is a clear and entertaining introduction to the complex questions that stem from the simple idea of 'art'.

Dialectical Passions

Author : Gail Day
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2010-12-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780231520621

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Dialectical Passions by Gail Day Pdf

Representing a new generation of theorists reaffirming the radical dimensions of art, Gail Day launches a bold critique of late twentieth-century art theory and its often reductive analysis of cultural objects. Exploring core debates in discourses on art, from the New Left to theories of "critical postmodernism" and beyond, Day counters the belief that recent tendencies in art fail to be adequately critical. She also challenges the political inertia that results from these conclusions. Day organizes her defense around critics who have engaged substantively with emancipatory thought and social process: T. J. Clark, Manfredo Tafuri, Fredric Jameson, Benjamin H. D. Buchloh, and Hal Foster, among others. She maps the tension between radical dialectics and left nihilism and assesses the interpretation and internalization of negation in art theory. Chapters confront the claim that exchange and equivalence have subsumed the use value of cultural objects and with it critical distance and interrogate the proposition of completed nihilism and the metropolis put forward in the politics of Italian operaismo. Day covers the debates on symbol and allegory waged within the context of 1980s art and their relation to the writings of Walter Benjamin and Paul de Man. She also examines common conceptions of mediation, totality, negation, and the politics of anticipation. A necessary unsettling of received wisdoms, Dialectical Passions recasts emancipatory reflection in aesthetics, art, and architecture.

The End of Diversity in Art Historical Writing

Author : James Elkins
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-07
Category : Art
ISBN : 9783110722475

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The End of Diversity in Art Historical Writing by James Elkins Pdf

The End of Diversity in Art Historical Writing is the most globally informed book on world art history, drawing on research in 76 countries. In addition some chapters have been crowd sourced: posted on the internet for comments, which have been incorporated into the text. It covers the principal accounts of Eurocentrism, center and margins, circulations and atlases of art, decolonial theory, incommensurate cultures, the origins and dissemination of the "October" model, problems of access to resources, models of multiple modernisms, and the emergence of English as the de facto lingua franca of art writing.

But Is It Art?

Author : Cynthia Freeland
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2002-02-07
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780191504259

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But Is It Art? by Cynthia Freeland Pdf

In today's art world many strange, even shocking, things qualify as art. In this book, Cynthia Freeland explains why innovation and controversy are valued in the arts, weaving together philosophy and art theory with many fascinating examples. She discusses blood, beauty, culture, money, museums, sex, and politics, clarifying contemporary and historical accounts of the nature, function, and interpretation of the arts. Freeland also propels us into the future by surveying cutting-edge web sites, along with the latest research on the brain's role in perceiving art. This clear, provocative book engages with the big debates surrounding our responses to art and is an invaluable introduction to anyone interested in thinking about art.

The Arts in Education

Author : Michael P. Fleming
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : EDUCATION
ISBN : 0415620295

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The Arts in Education by Michael P. Fleming Pdf

In this book Mike Fleming introduces the reader to key theoretical questions associated with arts education and clearly explains how these are related to practice.

Techne Theory

Author : Henry Staten
Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2019-02-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781472592897

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Techne Theory by Henry Staten Pdf

Only since the Romantic period has art been understood in terms of an ineffable aesthetic quality of things like poems, paintings, and sculptures, and the art-maker as endowed with an inexplicable power of creation. From the Greeks to the 18th century, art was conceived as techne--the skill and know-how by which things and states of affairs are ordered. Techne Theory shows how to use this concept to cut through the Romantic notion of art as a kind of magic by returning to the original sense of art as techne, the standpoint of the person who actually knows how to make a work of art. Understood as techne, art-making, like all other cultural accomplishments, is a form of work performed by an artisan who has inherited the know-how of previous generations of artisans. Along the way, Techne Theory cuts through the humanist-structuralist impasse over the question of artistic agency and explains what 'form' really means.