Defining Art, Creating the Canon - Artistic Value in an Era of Doubt

Zusatztext 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. Paul Crowther is Professor of Philosophy and the Visual Arts at Jacobs University Bremen in Germany. Zusammenfassung What is art? Why should we value it? Traditional answers have emphasized aesthetic form. This book attempts to restore 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.

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• Authors: Paul Crowther, Paul (National University of Ireland Gal Crowther, Paul (National University of Ireland Galway) Crowther, Paul A. Crowther, Crowther Paul
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.03.2007
• EAN: 9780199210688
• ISBN: 978-0-19-921068-8
• No. of pages: 276
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Theory of art, ART / History / General, Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics, ART / Criticism & Theory, History of art / art & design styles, History of Art, Philosophy: aesthetics