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Philosophy of the arts : an introduction to aesthetics / Gordon Graham.

By: Graham, Gordon.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 1997Description: xi, 193 p. ; 24 cm. + hbk.ISBN: 041516687X (m) (hbk); 0415166888 (v) (pbk).Subject(s): AestheticsDDC classification: 111.85
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Philosophy of the Artspresents a comprehensive and accessible introduction to those coming to aesthetics and the philosophy of art for the first time. The third edition is greatly enhanced with new chapters on art and beauty, the performing arts and modern art, and there are new sections on Aristotle, Hegel and Nietzsche. The remaining chapters have been thoroughly revised and extended. This new edition:

is jargon-free and will appeal to students of music, art history, literature and theatre studies as well as philosophy looks at a wide range of the arts from film, painting and architecture to literature, music, dance and drama discusses the philosophical theories of major thinkers including Aristotle, Hume, Hegel, Nietzsche, Croce, Collingwood, Gadamer and Derrida includes regular summaries and suggestions for further reading.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Introduction
  • 1 Art and Pleasure
  • Hume on taste and tragedy
  • Collingwood on art as amusement
  • Mill on higher and lower pleasures
  • The nature of pleasure
  • 2 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
  • 3 Art and Emotion
  • Tolstoy and everyday expressivism
  • Aristotle and katharsis
  • Expression and imagination
  • Croce and 'intuition'
  • Collingwood's expressivism
  • Expression versus expressiveness
  • Summary
  • 4 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
  • 5 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
  • 6 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
  • 7 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
  • 8 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 9 Architecture as an Art
  • The peculiarities of architecture
  • Form and function and â¼

Author notes provided by Syndetics

GORDON GRAHAM is Regius Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Aberdeen.

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