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Informationen zum Autor Kathleen Desmond is Professor of Art at Central Missouri State University where she teaches Ideas and the Visual Arts, a general education art appreciation course and Artists in Contemporary Society, an integrated capstone course required of all art majors. She has published more than seventy critical and scholarly articles about contemporary art and artists and college art teaching and learning in journals. Desmond is also Chair of the College Art Association's Education Committee Klappentext Ideas About Art is a volume comprised of case studies and aesthetic dilemmas that help students explore and develop critical thinking around issues of art and aesthetic theory. The volume examines a range of art-based dilemmas, cases and instances of art in a multicultural context and across a wide variety of disciplines--from art and design and law to visual and museum studies.Ideas about Art is organized into small chapters that begin with concrete stimuli for delving into deeper philosophical issues real and hypothetical--art's value, taste, the creative process, censorship, and aesthetic taste and theory. One or two cases/dilemmas introduce each of 15 chapters. A final chapter focuses on readers' development of their own philosophy of art. Zusammenfassung Ideas About Art is an intelligent, accessible introductory text for students interested in learning how to think about aesthetics. It uses stories drawn from the experiences of individuals involved in the arts as a means of exposing readers to the philosophies, theories, and arguments that shape and drive visual art. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements.List of Illustrations.Preface.1. Public Opinion/Public Art.2. Non-Western Ideas.3. Western Ideas.4. Beauty.5. Expression & Aesthetic Experience.6. Art & Ethics.7. Political Art, Censorship & Pornography.8. Art & Economics.9. Feminist Art, Aesthetics & Art Criticism.10. Postmodern Art & Attitudes.11. Photography & New Media.12. (Re)Discovering Design.13. Art & Aesthetic Education.14. Artists, Art Critics, Art Historians, Curators, Museums & Viewers.References.Index....
