Art without borders a philosophical exploration of art and humanity /

• Main Author: Scharfstein, Ben-Ami, 1919-
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2009.
• Subjects: Art, Comparative.; Art > Philosophy.; Aesthetics.; Art.; ART > Reference.; ART > Performance.; Electronic books.
• Online Access: View fulltext via EzAccess

People all over the world make art and take pleasure in it, and they have done so for millennia. But acknowledging that art is a universal part of human experience leads us to some big questions: Why does it exist? Why do we enjoy it? And how do the world's different art traditions relate to ar...

Table of Contents:

• An open aesthetics
• Selfless tradition
• Egocentric innovation
• Intersecting worlds and identities
• The common universe of aesthetic discourse.