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Defining Art, Creating the Canon: Artistic Value in an Era of Doubt by Crowther
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- Book Title
- Defining Art, Creating the Canon: Artistic Value in an Era of Dou
- Publication Date
- 2007-05-17
- Pages
- 276
- ISBN
- 9780199210688
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Publisher
Oxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0199210683
ISBN-13
9780199210688
eBay Product ID (ePID)
57077034
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
288 Pages
Publication Name
Defining Art, Creating the Canon : Artistic Value in an Era of Doubt
Language
English
Publication Year
2007
Subject
Criticism & Theory, General, Aesthetics
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Art, Philosophy
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
20.4 Oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
6.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2006-038894
Reviews
"...a stimulating read. It is unusually wide in its scope, it deals with several of the central questions for philosophy of art, and it offers an occasion to think hard about the deeper commitments we have both as philosophers and as art-lovers."--Ingvild Torsen,Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, This book is rich and sweeping, ambitious and dense, taking its reader through a fast-paced argument which addresses and borrows from cultural criticism, transcendental idealism, phenomenology, and hermenuetics...I found Crowther's book a stimulating read. It is unusually wide in its scope, it deals with several of the central questions for philosophy of art, and it offers an occasion to think hard about the deeper commitments we have both as philosophers and as art-lovers., .,."a stimulating read. It is unusually wide in its scope, it deals with several of the central questions for philosophy of art, and it offers an occasion to think hard about the deeper commitments we have both as philosophers and as art-lovers."--Ingvild Torsen, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, Crowther's argument offers an interesting possibility for reading art as a mode of image making...The book's greatest strength may be in the opportunities it provides for future studies on how art can be thought from more open theoretical orientations as opposed to predetermined value-based systems.
Dewey Edition
22
Dewey Decimal
111/.85
Table Of Content
Introduction: Normative Aesthetics and Artistic ValuePart One: Culture and Artistic Value1. Cultural Exclusion and the Definition of Art2. Defining Art, Defending the Canon, Contesting CulturePart Two: The Aesthetic and the Artistic3. From Beauty to Art; Developing Kant's Aesthetics4. The Scope and Value of the Artistic ImagePart Three: Distinctive Modes of Imaging5. Twofoldness: Pictorial Art and the Imagination6. Between Language and Perception: Literary Metaphor7. Musical Meaning and Value8. Eternalizing the Moment: Artistic Projections of TimeConclusion - The Status and Future of Art
Synopsis
What is art; why should we value it; and what allows us to say that one work is better than another? Traditional answers have emphasized aesthetic form. But this has been challenged by institutional definitions of art and postmodern critique. The idea of distinctively artistic value based on aesthetic criteria is at best doubted, and at worst, rejected. This book, however, champions the traditional notions. It restores the mimetic definition of art on the basis of factors which traditional answers neglect, namely the conceptual link between art's aesthetic value and 'non-exhibited' epistemological and historical relations. These factors converge on an expanded notion of the artistic image (a notion which can even encompass music, abstract art, and some conceptual idioms). The image's style serves to interpret its subject-matter. If this style is original (in comparative historical terms) it can manifest that special kind of aesthetic unity which we call art. Appreciation of this involves a heightened interaction of capacities (such as imagination and understanding) which are basic to knowledge and personal identity. By negotiating these factors, it is possible to define art and its canonic dimensions objectively, and to show that aforementioned sceptical alternatives are incomplete and self-contradictory., What is art; why should we value it; and what allows us to say that one work is better than another? Against the current of contemporary thinking, Paul Crowther uses a philosophical approach to champion the traditional answer to these questions, that there is such a thing as distinctively artistic value based on aesthetic criteria. In doing so he exposes flaws in the arguments of the sceptics for whom there can be no such thing as objectively good art., What is art; why should we value it; and what allows us to say that one work is better than another? Traditional answers have emphasized aesthetic form. But this has been challenged by institutional definitions of art and postmodern critique. The idea of distinctively artistic value based on aesthetic criteria is at best doubted, and at worst, rejected. This book, however, champions these notions in a new way. It does so through a rethink of the mimetic definition of art on the basis of factors which traditional answers neglect, namely the conceptual link between art's aesthetic value and 'non-exhibited' epistemological and historical relations. These factors converge on an expanded notion of the artistic image (a notion which can even encompass music, abstract art, and some conceptual idioms). The image's style serves to interpret its subject-matter. If this style is original (in comparative historical terms) it can manifest that special kind of aesthetic unity which we call art. Appreciation of this involves a heightened interaction of capacities (such as imagination and understanding) which are basic to knowledge and personal identity. By negotiating these factors, it is possible to define art and its canonic dimensions objectively, and to show that aforementioned sceptical alternatives are incomplete and self-contradictory., What is art; why should we value it; and what allows us to say that one work is better than another? Traditional answers have emphasized aesthetic form. But this has been challenged by institutional definitions of art and postmodern critique. The idea of distinctively artistic value based on aesthetic criteria is at best doubted, and at worst, rejected. This book, however, champions these notions in a new way. It does so through a rethink of the mimetic definition of art on the basis of factors which traditional answers neglect, namely the conceptual link between art's aesthetic value and 'non-exhibited' epistemological and historical relations.These factors converge on an expanded notion of the artistic image (a notion which can even encompass music, abstract art, and some conceptual idioms). The image's style serves to interpret its subject-matter. If this style is original (in comparative historical terms) it can manifest that special kind of aesthetic unity which we call art. Appreciation of this involves a heightened interaction of capacities (such as imagination and understanding) which are basic to knowledge and personal identity. By negotiating these factors, it is possible to define art and its canonic dimensions objectively, and to show that aforementioned sceptical alternatives are incomplete and self-contradictory.
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BH39.C76 2007
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