Aesthetics

Name: Aesthetics
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ISBN: 9780192892751

ISBN-10: 0192892754

ISBN-13: 9780192892751

Edition: 1997

Authors: Susan L. Feagin, Patrick Maynard

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This new Reader offers an important new resource, combining classic accounts of the nature of aesthetics with the latests methods of approaching the subject. With its valuable multicultural approach, not confined to the consideration of fine art, it focuses on questions that examine why art and the aesthetic matter to us and how perceivers participate in and contribute to the experience of appreciating a work of art. Why have people thought it important to separate out a group of objects and call them `art'? Is it inappropriate to think of something as art when its creator would not have considered it in that way? Are the concepts of art and the aesthetic elitist? Can we ever understand an…

Book details

List price: $65.95
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/9/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 426
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English



Preface



What is distinctive about the aesthetic?



Why is it important to recognize objects as art?



Art as a vehicle for expression, creativity and freedom



Is it ever possible to understand a work of art?



Why is it important to respond emotionally to art?



Are evaluations of art objective?


Notes


Further Reading


Biographical Details


Index