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Author: Caroline van Eck
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1995-05-11
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780521473415
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEssays examining the historical transition in our perception of the arts and philosophy.
Author: Robert B. Pippin
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2021-05-26
Total Pages: 282
ISBN-13: 022677080X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The relationship between philosophy and aesthetic criticism has occupied Robert Pippin throughout his illustrious career. Whether discussing film, literature, or modern and contemporary art, Pippin's claim is that we cannot understand aesthetic objects unless we reckon with the fact that some distinct philosophical issue is integral to their meaning. In his latest offering, Philosophy by Other Means, we are treated to a collection of essays that builds on this larger project, offering profound ruminations on philosophical issues in aesthetics along with revelatory readings of Henry James, Marcel Proust, and J. M. Coetzee"--
Author: Herbert Spencer
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Published: 1873
Total Pages: 68
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Alva Noë
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Published: 2015-09-22
Total Pages: 291
ISBN-13: 1429945257
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA philosopher makes the case for thinking of works of art as tools for investigating ourselves In his new book, Strange Tools: Art and Human Nature, the philosopher and cognitive scientist Alva Noë raises a number of profound questions: What is art? Why do we value art as we do? What does art reveal about our nature? Drawing on philosophy, art history, and cognitive science, and making provocative use of examples from all three of these fields, Noë offers new answers to such questions. He also shows why recent efforts to frame questions about art in terms of neuroscience and evolutionary biology alone have been and will continue to be unsuccessful.
Author: Jorella Andrews
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: 2018-11-29
Total Pages: 361
ISBN-13: 1472574281
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSince the latter half of the 20th century, committed art has been associated with conceptual, critical and activist practices. Painting, by contrast, is all too often defined as an outmoded, reactionary, market-led venture; an ineffectual medium from the perspective of social and political engagement. How can paintings change the world today? The question of painting, in particular, fuelled the investigations of a major 20th-century philosopher: the French phenomenologist, Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1907-61). Merleau-Ponty was at the forefront of attempts to place philosophy on a new footing by contravening the authority of Cartesian dualism and objectivist thought-an authority that continues to limit present-day intellectual, imaginative, and ethical possibilities. A central aim of The Question of Painting is to provide a closely focused, chronological account of his unfolding project and its relationship with art, clarifying how painting, as a paradigmatically embodied and situated mode of investigation, helped him to access the fundamentally “intercorporeal” basis of reality as he saw it, and articulate its lived implications. With an exclusive and extended conversation about the contemporary virtues of painting with New York based artist Leah Durner, for whom the work of Merleau-Ponty is an important source of inspiration, The Question of Painting brings today's much debated concerns about the criticality of painting into contact with the question of painting in philosophy.
Author: Gordon Graham
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2006-09-07
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 1134563671
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA new edition of this bestselling introduction to aesthetics and the philosophy of art. Includes new sections on digital music and environmental aesthetics. All other chapters have been thoroughly revised and updated.
Author: Stephen Davies
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2010-02-18
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 0199202435
DOWNLOAD EBOOK`A particularly useful, informative and stimulating work for any reader with an interest in the philosophy of art.' Katerina Bantinaki, Analysis --
Author: Jorge J. E. Gracia
Publisher: SUNY Press
Published: 2012-02-01
Total Pages: 325
ISBN-13: 1438441770
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA provocative examination of the artistic interpretation of twelve of Borges’s most famous stories.
Author: Glenn Parsons
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2015-11-18
Total Pages: 159
ISBN-13: 150950219X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Philosophy of Design is an introduction to the fundamental philosophical issues raised by the contemporary practice of design. The first book to systematically examine design from the perspective of contemporary philosophy, it offers a broad perspective, ranging across key philosophical areas such as aesthetics, epistemology, metaphysics and ethics. The first part of the book explores central issues about the nature of design and its products, and the rationality of design methods. A central theme is that Modernist ideas, such as those offered by Loos and Gropius, provide important responses to these philosophical issues. In the second part of the book, these Modernist ideas serve as touchstones in the exploration of key issues for design, including: the place of aesthetics in design; designs relation to personal expression; the meaning of function; and designs relation to consumerism. The social responsibility of designers, and the impact of design practice on ethical reasoning are also discussed. Written in an accessible style, The Philosophy of Design presents a new perspective on design and a provocative reassessment of the Modernist legacy. It will engage students and designers with current philosophical debates, helping them to bring into clearer focus the meaning of contemporary design, and its unique challenges and possibilities.
Author: Henry Staten
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2019-02-21
Total Pages: 217
ISBN-13: 1472592913
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOnly 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.
