Aesthetics and Painting

Aesthetics and Painting
Author: Jason Gaiger
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 205
Release: 2008-10-23
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1441154582
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Aesthetics and Painting introduces and opens up current debates and ideas in the aesthetics of painting. At the book's center is an investigation of the complex relationship between what a painting depicts and the means by which it is depicted. The book looks at: how and why painting may be distinguished from other art forms; the relationship between the painted surface and the depicted subject; the "rules of representation" specific to painting; abstract art and nonrepresentational painting; the most recent technological and aesthetic developments and their implications; the role of the artist-and that of the spectator. A sophisticated treatment of major ideas in art and philosophy, Aesthetics and Painting remains highly readable throughout, offering a clear and coherent account of the nature of painting as an art form.

The Aesthetics of Art

The Aesthetics of Art
Author: Liza Renia Papi
Publisher: Cognella Academic Publishing
Total Pages:
Release: 2021-07-26
Genre:
ISBN: 9781793546265
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Why Cats Paint

Why Cats Paint
Author: Burton Silver
Publisher: Random House Digital, Inc.
Total Pages: 162
Release: 2006
Genre: Pets
ISBN: 9781580087933
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In 1994, WHY CATS PAINT took the art world and animal world by storm with its unprecedented photographic record of cat creativity. Those seminal books in feline aesthetics are now offered in new pocket-size editions filled with the best from each volume, making purrfect gifts for cat lovers and art lovers alike.Reviews"great for stocking stuffers."-Cleveland Plain Dealer

Puzzles about Art

Puzzles about Art
Author: Margaret P. Battin
Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's
Total Pages: 226
Release: 1989-03-15
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780312003074
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The first casebook for use in courses in aesthetics, Puzzles about Art provides more than 180 real and hypothetical cases that illustrate important principles and theories in the philosophy of art. With 25 illustrations as well as concrete examples from legal cases, museum experiences, newspaper articles and various media, including painting, sculpture, photography, music, drama, and film, Puzzles about Art helps students understand specific problems in the visual arts.

Poetry in Painting

Poetry in Painting
Author: Helene Cixous
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2012-04-04
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0748647457
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The first book by Helene Cixous on painting and the contemporary arts. This collection gathers most of Helene Cixous' texts devoted to contemporary artists, such as the painter Nancy Spero, the photographer Andres Serrano, the visual artist Roni Horn, the fashion designer Sonia Rykiel and the choreographer Karine Saporta, among others. The artworks belong to different genres and media - photography, painting, installations, film, choreography and fashion design - while the commentaries all deal with some of Helene Cixous' privileged themes: exile, war, violence (against women) and exclusion, as well as love, memory, beauty and tenderness.Neither art criticism nor a collection of critical essays, Helene Cixous responds to these artworks as a poet, reading them as if they were poems. Written between 1985 and 2010, most of these essays are unpublished in English, or published only in rare catalogues or art books.

Art in Action

Art in Action
Author: Nicholas Wolterstorff
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Total Pages: 260
Release: 1980
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780802818164
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Taking vigorous issue with the pervasive Western notion that the arts exist essentially for the purpose of aesthetic contemplation, Nicholas Wolterstorff proposes instead what he sees as an authentically Christian perspective: that art has a legitimate, even necessary, place in everyday life. While granting that galleries, theaters and concert halls serve a valid purpose, Wolterstorff argues that art should also be appreciated in action -- in private homes, in hotel lobbies, in factories and grocery stores, on main street. His conviction that art should be multifunction is basic to the author's views on art in the city (he regards most American cities as dehumanizing wastelands of aesthetic squalor, dominated by the demands of the automobile), and leads him to a helpful discussion of its role in worship and the church. Developing an aesthetic that is basically grounded, yet always sensitive to the human need for beauty, Wolterstorff make a brilliant contribution to understanding how art can serve to broaden and enrich our lives.

Art as Human Practice

Art as Human Practice
Author: Georg W. Bertram
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2019-01-10
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1350063169
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How is art both distinct and different from the rest of human life, while also mattering in and for it? This central yet overlooked question in contemporary philosophy of art is at the heart of Georg Bertram's new aesthetic. Drawing on the resources of diverse philosophical traditions – analytic philosophy, French philosophy, and German post-Kantian philosophy – his book offers a systematic account of art as a human practice. One that remains connected to the whole of life.

Painting, Ethics, and Aesthetics in Rome

Painting, Ethics, and Aesthetics in Rome
Author: Nathaniel B. Jones
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 311
Release: 2019-01-24
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1108420125
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Demonstrates how ancient Roman mural paintings stood at the intersection of contemporary social, ethical, and aesthetic concerns.

The Merleau-Ponty Aesthetics Reader

The Merleau-Ponty Aesthetics Reader
Author: Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Total Pages: 438
Release: 1993
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0810110741
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Merleau-Ponty's essays on aesthetics are some of the major accomplishments of his philosophical career, and rank even today among the most sophisticated reflections on art in all of twentieth-century philosophy. His essays on painting, "Cezanne's Doubt" (1945), "Indirect Language and the Voices of Silence" (1952), and "Eye and Mind" (1960), have inspired new approaches to epistemology, ontology, and the philosophy of history. Galen A. Johnson has gathered these essays for the first time into a single volume and augmented them with essays by distinguished scholars and artists, including M.C. Dillon, Mikel Dufrenne, and René Magritte. Together the essays demonstrate the continuing significance of Merleau-Ponty's ideas about art for contemporary philosophy on both sides of the Atlantic.

Conversations on Art and Aesthetics

Conversations on Art and Aesthetics
Author: Hans Maes
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2017-05-12
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0191509620
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What is art? What counts as an aesthetic experience? Does art have to beautiful? Can one reasonably dispute about taste? What is the relation between aesthetic and moral evaluations? How to interpret a work of art? Can we learn anything from literature, film or opera? What is sentimentality? What is irony? How to think philosophically about architecture, dance, or sculpture? What makes something a great portrait? Is music representational or abstract? Why do we feel terrified when we watch a horror movie even though we know it to be fictional? In Conversations on Art and Aesthetics, Hans Maes discusses these and other key questions in aesthetics with ten world-leading philosophers of art: Noël Carroll, Gregory Currie, Arthur Danto, Cynthia Freeland, Paul Guyer, Carolyn Korsmeyer, Jerrold Levinson, Jenefer Robinson, Roger Scruton, and Kendall Walton. The exchanges are direct, open, and sharp, and give a clear account of these thinkers' core ideas and intellectual development. They also offer new insights into, and a deeper understanding of, contemporary issues in the philosophy of art.