Defining art, creating the canon : artistic value in an era of doubt

Defining art, creating the canon : artistic value in an era of doubt / Paul Crowther.

A lively and accessible read, suitable for non-philosophers, this book reinvigorates central debates in aesthetics and art theory. The book is split into three parts, Culture and Artistic Value, The Aesthetic and the Artistic, and Distinctive Modes of Imaging.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Crowther, Paul
Corporate Author: Oxford University Press
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford ; New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, 2007.
Subjects:
Aesthetics.
Art > Philosophy.
PHILOSOPHY > Aesthetics.
Aesthetics
Art > Philosophy
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : normative aesthetics and artistic value
  • Culture and artistic value
  • Cultural exclusion and the definition of art
  • Defining art, defending the canon, contesting culture
  • The aesthetic and the artistic
  • From beauty to art : developing Kant's aesthetics
  • The scope and value of the artistic image
  • Distinctive modes of imaging
  • Twofoldness : pictorial art and the imagination
  • Between language and perception : literary metaphor
  • Musical meaning and value
  • Eternalizing the moment : artistic projections of time
  • Conclusion : the status and future of art.

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