Techne Theory - A New Language for Art

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.>

Product details

• Authors: Henry Staten, Henry (University of Washington Staten, Staten Henry
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2019
• EAN: 9781472592897
• ISBN: 978-1-4725-9289-7
• No. of pages: 216
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Theory of art, Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics, PHILOSOPHY / Criticism, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Critical Theory, PHILOSOPHY / Hermeneutics