Thinking Art An Introduction to Philosophy of Art /
In the twentieth century, avant-garde movements have pushed the concept of art far beyond its traditional boundaries. In this dynamical process of constant renewal the prestige of thinking about art as a legitimizing practice has come to the fore. So it is hardly surprising that the past decades hav...
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Dordrecht :
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2009.
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Table of Contents:
- Preface, Chapter 1, Introduction: What is Philosophy of Art? Part One ,The Nature of Art: Classical Answers to the Question "What is Art?"
- Chapter 2,The Imitation Theory
- Chapter 3, Expressive Theories
- Chapter 4, Formalism
- Chapter 5,Art as Synthesis of Form and Expression
- Chapter 6,Aesthetic Judgment: The Legacy of Kant
- Part Two,Art in A Historical and Social Perspective
- Chapter 7,"The End of Art": The Contemporary Interest in Hegel
- Chapter 8, Art and Society: A Neomarxist Perspective
- Part Three, The Language of Art: From Phenomenology to poststructuralism
- Chapter 9, The Phenomenological perspective
- Chapter 10, Formalism from a Modern Outlook: The Semiotic Perspective
- Chapter 11, The Post-Structuralist Perspective
- Chapter 12 Epilogue.