Aesthetics
Aesthetics

Author: Charles Taliaferro

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2012-12-01

Total Pages: 168

ISBN-13: 1780741251

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Explaining what art is and what’s not art. What is art? Why do we find some things beautiful but not others? Is it wrong to share MP3s? These are just some of the questions explored by aesthetics, the philosophy of art. In this sweeping introduction, Charles Taliaferro skilfully guides us through different theories of art and beauty, tackling issues such as who owns art and what happens when art and morality collide. From Plato on poetry to Ringo Starr on the drums, this is a perfect introductory text for anyone interested in the fascinating questions art can raise.

The Blackwell Guide to Aesthetics
The Blackwell Guide to Aesthetics

Author: Peter Kivy

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2009-02-09

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 1405143061

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The Blackwell Guide to Aesthetics is the most authoritativesurvey of the central issues in contemporary aesthetics available.The volume features eighteen newly commissioned papers on theevaluation of art, the interpretation of art, and many other formsof art such as literature, movies, and music. Provides a guide to the central traditional and cutting edgeissues in aesthetics today. Written by a distinguished cast of contributors, includingPeter Kivy, George Dickie, Noël Carroll, Paul Guyer, TedCohen, Marcia Eaton, Joseph Margolis, Berys Gaut, NicholasWolterstrorff, Susan Feagin, Peter Lamarque, Stein Olsen, FrancisSparshott, Alan Goldman, Jenefer Robinson, Mary Mothersill, DonaldCrawford, Philip Alperson, Laurent Stern and Amie Thomasson. Functions as the ideal text for undergraduate and graduatecourses in aesthetics, art theory, and philosophy of art.

Guide to Aesthetics
Guide to Aesthetics

Author: Jeff Seid

Publisher:

Published: 2017-01-15

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9780692950517

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Aesthetics is much more than just being physically appealing. It is a lifestyle, a way of life. One does not attain aesthetic perfection over night. It takes years of consistency to shape your physique into a masterpiece, but more, it takes you to change your entire outlook on life.

Guide to Aesthetics
Guide to Aesthetics

Author: Benedetto Croce

Publisher: Hackett Publishing

Published: 1995-01-01

Total Pages: 124

ISBN-13: 9780872203044

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A reprint of the Library of Liberal Arts edition of 1965. Croce's Guide presents one of the clearest and strongest defenses of the intuitive nature of art in Western philosophical thought.

Introducing Aesthetics
Introducing Aesthetics

Author: Christopher Kul-Want

Publisher: Icon Books Ltd

Published: 2014-12-01

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13: 184831888X

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What is beauty, and what is truth? These are some of the questions which aesthetics tries to answer. In our everyday life, we talk about the 'aesthetics' of an artwork or a piece of design. But aesthetics goes beyond the simple experience of art. It is also a branch of philosophy concerned with the whole nature of experience itself, explored through our perceptions, feelings and emotions.

Aesthetics 101
Aesthetics 101

Author: Nabel Khatut

Publisher: CreateSpace

Published: 2012-08-23

Total Pages: 90

ISBN-13: 9781479179121

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Aesthetics 101 is a step-by-step guide teaching readers how to achieve an 'aesthetic' physique through weight training, tailored diets, and supplementation. Aesthetics 101 is very detailed and explains every aspect so that the reader will know the exact path to achieve the aesthetic physique he has always been dreaming of, guaranteed.

The Routledge Companion to Aesthetics
The Routledge Companion to Aesthetics

Author: Berys Nigel Gaut

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 742

ISBN-13: 9780415327985

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Containing fifty-four chapters written by leading international scholars and covering all aspects of aesthetics, this fully revised second edition includes eight new entries and updated further reading.

A Companion to Aesthetics
A Companion to Aesthetics

Author: Stephen Davies

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2009-04-27

Total Pages: 644

ISBN-13: 1405169222

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A COMPANION TO AESTHETICS This second edition of A Companion to Aesthetics examines questions that were among the earliest discussed by ancient philosophers, such as the nature of beauty and the relation between morality and art, while also addressing a host of new issues prompted by recent developments in the arts and in philosophy, including coverage of non-Western art traditions and of everyday and environmental aesthetics. The volume also canvases debates regarding the nature of representation, the relation between art and truth, and the criteria for interpretation, which are among the most hotly discussed topics in contemporary philosophy. In this extensively revised and updated edition, 168 alphabetically arranged articles provide comprehensive treatment of the main topics and writers in aesthetics. Major additions include historical overviews from the prehistoric to the present and a section on the individual arts. A Companion to Aesthetics will serve students of philosophy, literary criticism, and cultural studies - as well as the educated general reader - both as a work of reference and, with its many substantial essays, as a guide to the best thinking about the arts from the ancient Greeks to the dawn of the twenty-first century.

Aesthetics: Key Concepts in Philosophy
Aesthetics: Key Concepts in Philosophy

Author: Daniel Herwitz

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2008-05-09

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 0826432948

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Aesthetics is the branch of philosophical thought that arises from deep engagement with the arts. It is about larger issues such as meaning, identity, and medium that arise in the exploration of art, music, film and literature. Aesthetics: Key Concepts in Philosophy offers a thorough, lucid and stimulating account of the central theories and ideas encountered in aesthetics. The text is thematically structured, covering the discipline's principal concepts: taste, aesthetic judgment, aesthetic experience, and the definition of art. It includes an overview of the history of aesthetics and guides the reader through the work of all major philosophers who have engaged with aesthetics.