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This book is a collection of pragmatist inquiries into the epistemology of artistic creation and evaluation of artworks. It offers a new concept of aesthetics and beauty of artworks. Aesthetics is the mode of artistic representation of reality, and artworks are beautiful when proven aesthetic true representations of reality.
List of contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: The Beauty of Artwork Is in Its Aesthetic True Representation of Reality:
Epistemology of Creation and Evaluation of Artwork
Chapter 2: It is an Illusion that Artworks Are Fictitious Illusions as they are Actually
Aesthetic Modes of Representing Reality
Chapter 3: Epistemology of Aesthetic Experience: Criticizing and Reconstructing Kant's
Aesthetic Theories of Genius Creativity and Judgment of Beauty
Chapter 4: Free Creation of Artwork is the Determinate Self-Control of Proving its True
Interpretation and Representation of Reality
Chapter 5: How to Square (Normo, CP:2.7) Peirceanly the Kantian Circularity in the
Epistemology of Aesthetics as a Normative Science of Creating and Evaluating the Beauty of
Artworks
Chapter 6: The Role of Productive Imagination in Creating Artworks and Discovering
Scientific Hypotheses
Chapter 7: On Post-Modern Artworks: A New Aesthetic Genre or Rather a Pseudo Concept of
Art, and then "What, After All, Is a Work of Art?"
Chapter 8: Epilog: Can we Theorize some Bizarre Aesthetic Domains - The Beauty of Music
Aesthetics, Mathematics-Theoretic, and Human-Ethic?
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
About the author
By Dan Nesher
Summary
This book is a collection of pragmatist inquiries into the epistemology of artistic creation and evaluation of artworks. It offers a new concept of aesthetics and beauty of artworks. Aesthetics is the mode of artistic representation of reality, and artworks are beautiful when proven aesthetic true representations of reality.
