UID:
almafu_9959328316102883
Format:
1 online resource (xii, 278 pages)
ISBN:
9780470774922
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0470774924
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1405143649
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9781405143646
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1280198354
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9781280198359
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1405116668
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9781405116664
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1405116676
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9781405116671
Series Statement:
New directions in aesthetics ; 2
Content:
In this wide-ranging and challenging book, David Davies elaborates and defends a broad conceptual framework for thinking about the arts that reveals important continuities and discontinuities between traditional and modern art, and between different artistic disciplines. The centerpiece is a novel and provocative view about the kinds of things that artworks are, with important consequences for how they are to be understood. Beginning with a lively discussion of the difficulties that audiences experience in their attempts to grasp and appreciate much modern and contemporary art, Davies continues with illuminating considerations of important and influential works from a broad range of artistic media - including painting, music, literature, film, performance, and dance - steadily mounting a bold and persuasive theory of the arts which construes artworks as performances. Replete with examples drawn from both modern and traditional art, the book highlights core topics in aesthetics and art theory, including traditional theories about the nature of art, aesthetic appreciation, artistic intentions, performance, and artistic meaning.
Note:
Aesthetic empiricism and the philosophy of art -- The fine structure of the focus of appreciation -- The artwork as performance: an argument from artistic intentions -- Provenance, modality, and the identity of the artwork -- Artwork, action, and performance -- Art as performance -- Revisionism and modernism revisited -- Performance as art -- Defining "art" as performance, and the values of art.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Davies, David, 1949- Art as performance. Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2004 ISBN 1405116668
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781405116664
Language:
English
Subjects:
Philosophy
Keywords:
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DOI:
10.1002/9780470774922
URL:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9780470774922
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https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9780470774922
URL:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9780470774922
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