Explanation and Value in the Arts

Name: Explanation and Value in the Arts
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ISBN: 9780521419260

ISBN-10: 0521419263

ISBN-13: 9780521419260

Edition: 1993

Authors: Salim Kemal, Ivan Gaskell

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Explanation and Value in the Arts offers penetrating studies by art historians, literary theorists and philosophers, of issues central to explaining works of literature and painting. The first chapters look at the sources of interest in the fine arts and point to the intimate relation between aesthetic and other values. The following contributions develop the interaction between value and explanation by examining the construction of value in the study of the arts, including considerations of the nature of creativity and the principles for the explanations of works. A final section takes up questions of the role of ideology and the determining role of power.

Book details

List price: $119.00
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 4/15/1993
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 1.078



List of contributors


Editors' acknowledgments



Interests, values, and explanations




Fiction and reality in painting




Franz Kafka: the necessity for a philosophical interpretation of his work




On relocating ethical criticism




Explanation and value: what makes the visual arts so different, so appealing?




Is art history?




Objectivity and valuation in contemporary art history




Fullness and parsimony: notes on creativity in the arts




Principles of a sociology of cultural works




Althusser and ideological criticism of the arts




Film, rhetoric, and ideology



Index