An Introduction to Aesthetics
E-Book, Englisch, 288 Seiten
ISBN: 978-1-134-27121-4
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)
- is jargon-free and will appeal to students of music, art history and literature as well as philosophy
- looks at a wide range of the arts from film, painting and architecture to fiction, music and poetry
- discusses a range of philosophical theories of thinkers such as Hume, Kant, Gaender, Collingwood, Derrida, Hegel and Croce
- contains regular summaries and suggestions for further reading.
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Chapter One Art and Pleasure
Hume on taste and tragedy – Collingwood on art as amusement – Mill on higher and lower pleasures – the nature of pleasure
Chapter Two Art and Beauty
Beauty and pleasure – Kant on beauty -- the aesthetic attitude and the sublime – art and the aesthetic -- Gadamer and art as play – art and sport – summary
Chapter Three Art and Emotion
Tolstoy and everyday expressivism – Aristotle and katharsis -- expression and imagination -- Croce and 'intuition' -- Collingwood's expressivism - expression versus expressiveness – summary
Chapter Four Art and Understanding
Hegel, art and mind – art, science and knowledge - aesthetic cognitivism, for and against - imagination and experience - the objects of imagination - art and the world - understanding as a norm – art and human nature -- summary
Chapter Five Music and Sonic Art
Music and pleasure - music and emotion - music as language - music and representation - musical vocabulary and musical grammar - the uniqueness of music - music and beauty - music as the exploration of sound – sonic art and digital technology – summary
Chapter Six The Visual Arts
What is representation? - representation and artistic value - art and the visual - visual art and the non-visual - film as art - montage versus longshot - talkies - the 'auteur' in film - summary
Chapter Seven The Literary Arts
Poetry and prose -- the unity of form and content - figures of speech - expressive language - poetic devices - narrative and fiction - literature and understanding - summary
Chapter Eight The Performing Arts
Artist, audience and performer – painting as the paradigm of art – Nietzsche and The Birth of Tragedy – performance and participation – the art of the actor -- summary
Chapter Nine Architecture as an Art
The peculiarities of architecture - form and function and ‘the decorated shed’ - façade, deception and the 'Zeitgeist' - functionalism - formalism and 'space' – resumé --architectural expression -- architecture and understanding – summary
Chapter Ten Modern Art
The break with tradition – experimental art and the avant-garde – the art of the readymade – conceptual art – the market in art – art and leisure – summary
Chapter Eleven The Aesthetics of Nature
The objectivity of aesthetic evaluation - the artist's intention - the intentionalist 'fallacy' - natural beauty – environmentalism and the aesthetics of nature – summary
Chapter Twelve Theories of Art
Defining art - art as an institution - sociology and the Marxist theory of art - Lukacs and realism - Levy-Strauss and structuralism - Derrida and deconstruction - Hegel and Schopenhauer: normative theory of art - summary
