Philosophy of the Arts presents a comprehensive and accessible introduction to those coming to aesthetics and the philosophy of art for the first time.The third edition is greatly enhancedby new sections on art and beauty, modern art, Aristotle and katharsis, and Hegel.Each chapter hasbeen thoroughly revised with fresh material and extended discussions. As with previous editions, the book:
is jargon-free and will appeal to students of music, art history and literature as well as philosophylooks at a wide range of the arts from film, painting and architecture to fiction, music and poetrydiscusses a range of philosophical theories of thinkers such as Hume, Kant, Gaender, Collingwood, Derrida, Hegel and Crocecontains regular summaries and suggestions for further reading.
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'The new edition of Philosophy of the Arts provides one of the most comprehensive and pellucid introductions to aesthetics on the market.' - Andy Hamilton, Durham University
Reviews of the second edition:
'…clear, comprehensive yet philosophically complex.' - Matthew Kieran, University of Leeds
'…accessible, wide-ranging and above all engaged.' - Jerrold Levinson, University of Maryland
'Gordon Graham’s book is a delight – urbane and authoritative, accessible to all.' - Peter Lamarque, University of Hull
'An excellent introduction to philosophical aesthetics, which also makes its own distinctive and original contribution to the subject.' - Alex Neill, University of Southampton
作者简介
GORDON GRAHAMis Regius Professor of Moral Philosophyat the University of Aberdeen.
目录
Chapter One Art and PleasureHume on taste and tragedy -- Collingwood on art as amusement -- Mill on higher and lower pleasures -- the nature of pleasureChapter Two Art and BeautyBeauty and pleasure -- Kant on beauty -- the aesthetic attitude and the sublime -- art and the aesthetic -- Gadamer and art as play -- art and sport -- summaryChapter Three Art and EmotionTolstoy and everyday expressivism -- Aristotle and katharsis -- expression and imagination -- Croce and 'intuition' -- Collingwood's expressivism - expression versus expressiveness -- summaryChapter Four Art and UnderstandingHegel, art and mind -- art, science and knowledge - aesthetic cognitivism, for and against - imagination and experience - the objects of imagination - art and the world - understanding as a norm -- art and human nature -- summaryChapter Five Music and Sonic ArtMusic and pleasure - music and emotion - music as language - music and representation - musical vocabulary and musical grammar - the uniqueness of music - music and beauty - music as the exploration of sound -- sonic art and digital technology -- summaryChapter Six The Visual ArtsWhat is representation? - representation and artistic value - art and the visual - visual art and the non-visual - film as art - montage versus longshot - talkies - the 'auteur' in film - summaryChapter Seven The Literary ArtsPoetry and prose -- the unity of form and content - figures of speech - expressive language - poetic devices - narrative and fiction - literature and understanding - summaryChapter Eight The Performing ArtsArtist, audience and performer -- painting as the paradigm of art -- Nietzsche and The Birth of Tragedy -- performance and participation -- the art of the actor -- summaryChapter Nine Architecture as an ArtThe peculiarities of architecture - form and function and 'the decorated shed' - facade, deception and the 'Zeitgeist' - functionalism - formalism and 'space' -- resume --architectural expression -- architecture and understanding -- summaryChapter Ten Modern ArtThe break with tradition -- experimental art and the avant-garde -- the art of the readymade -- conceptual art -- the market in art -- art and leisure -- summaryChapter Eleven The Aesthetics of NatureThe objectivity of aesthetic evaluation - the artist's intention - the intentionalist 'fallacy' - natural beauty -- environmentalism and the aesthetics of nature -- summaryChapter Twelve Theories of ArtDefining art - art as an institution - sociology and the Marxist theory of art - Lukacs and realism - Levy-Strauss and structuralism - Derrida and deconstruction - Hegel and Schopenhauer: normative theory of art - summary
| 出版社 | Routledge |
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| 作者 | Gordon Graham |
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