Pennsylvania State University Press, 1992. — 292 p. Aesthetic alienation may be described as the paradoxical relationship whereby art and truth have come to be divorced from one another while nonetheless remaining entwined. J.M. Bernstein not only funds the separation of and truth problematic, but also contends that we continue to experience sensuous and particular, thus...
Verso, 2016. — 79 p. — (Futures). — ISBN10: 1784783803. — ISBN13: 978-1784783808. Author of the influential Relational Aesthetics examines the dynamics of ideology Nicolas Bourriaud is a leading theorist and art curator. Here he looks to the future of art as a place to tackle the excluded, the disposable, and waste-the exform. He argues that the great theoretical battles to...
University of Chicago Press, 2014. — 312 p. What is the place of materiality - the expression or condition of a physical substance - in our visual age of rapidly changing materials and media? How is it fashioned in the arts or manifested in technology? In Surface, cultural critic and theorist Giuliana Bruno deftly explores these questions, seeking to understand materiality in...
State University of New York Press, 2003. — 336 p. Though our time is often said to be post-religious and post-metaphysical, many continue to seek some encounter with otherness and transcendence in art. This book deals diversely with the issues of art, origins, and otherness, both in themselves and in philosophical engagements with the works of Plato, Kant, Hegel, Schopenhauer,...
State University of New York, 2016. — 337 p. — ISBN: 1438459599 This collection of essays brings together diverse but interrelated perspectives on art and perception based on the philosophy of Maurice Merleau-Ponty. Although Merleau-Ponty focused almost exclusively on painting in his writings on aesthetics, this collection also considers poetry, literary works, theater, and...
Cambridge University Press, 2003. — 262 p. StanleyCavell has been one of the most creative and independent contemporary philosophical voices. At the core of his thought is the view that skepticism is not a theoretical position to be refuted byphilosophical theorybut a reflection of the fundamental limits of human knowledge of the self, of others, and of the external world that...
Cambridge University Press, 2003. — 292 p. In this book Richard Eldridge presents a clear and compact survey of philosophical theories of the nature and significance of art. Drawing on materials from classical and contemporary philosophy as well as from literary theory and art criticism, he explores the representational, expressive, and formal dimensions of art, and he argues...
Oxford University Press, 2001. - 91 p. Blood and beauty Paradigms and purposes Cultural crossings Money, markets, museums Gender, genius, and Guerrilla Girls Cognition, creation, comprehension Digitizing and disseminating Further reading
Routledge, 1997. — 208 p. Philosophy of the Arts approaches the issues in aesthetics not by asking what art is, but what its special value is. Gordon Graham explores the familiar and rival ideas of the value of art as a form of entertainment, a source of beauty and as a means of emotional expression. He undertakes an understanding of art in general - painting, film, fiction,...
Chichester, U.K.; Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. — 566 p. — (Blackwell Companions to Philosophy). — ISBN: 978-1-4051-4170-3. This monumental collection of new and recent essays from an international team of eminent scholars represents the best contemporary critical thinking relating to both literary and philosophical studies of literature. Helpfully groups essays into the...
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2018. — 179 p. — ISBN10: 1720557853, 13 978-1720557852. About the loss of Western art to a false art philosophy, nihilism, industrialization, and a corrupt art establishment. An ancient tradition has been carelessly discarded and is close to being lost forever. Can we bring back real art? Inside... Art has been taken from us....
Princeton University Press, 2013. — 194 p. Drawing on psychoanalysis, philosophy, and the intellectual history of the history of art, The Melancholy Art explores the unique connections between melancholy and the art historian's craft. This book explains why to write about art is to share in a kind of intertwined pleasure and loss that is the very essence of melancholy. The...
Fordham University Press, 2016. — 304 p. — ISBN: 9780823275731; 9780823275809. Philosophers working on aesthetics have paid considerable attention to art and artists of the early modern period. Yet early modern artistic practices scarcely figure in recent work on the emergence of aesthetics as a branch of philosophy over the course the eighteenth century. This book addresses...
Oxford University Press, 2007. — 200 p. Artworld Metaphysics turns a critical eye upon aspects of the artworld, and articulates some of the problems, principles, and norms implicit in the actual practices of artistic creation, interpretation, evaluation, and commodification. Aesthetic theory is treated as descriptive and explanatory, rather than normative: a theory that relates...
Oxford University Press, 2005. — 251 p. Do the artist's intentions have anything to do with the making and appreciation of works of art? In Art and Intention Paisley Livingston develops a broad and balanced perspective on perennial disputes between intentionalists and anti-intentionalists in philosophical aesthetics and critical theory. He surveys and assesses a wide range of...
Oxford University Press, 2005. — 223 p. Looking at pictures, we see in them the scenes they depict, and any value they have springs from these experiences of seeing-in. Sight and Sensibility presents the first detailed and comprehensive theory of evaluating pictures. Dominic Lopes confronts the puzzle of how the value of seeing anything in a picture can exceed that of seeing it...
Yale University Press, 2001. — 483 p. — ISBN: 0-300-09127-3. From ancient Egypt through the nineteenth century, Sexual Personae explores the provocative connections between art and pagan ritual; between Emily Dickinson and the Marquis de Sade; between Lord Byron and Elvis Presley. It ultimately challenges the cultural assumptions of both conservatives and traditional liberals.
Routledge, 2011. — 223 p. Philosophy of art is traditionally concerned with the definition, appreciation and value of art. Through a close examination of art from recent centuries, Art and Phenomenology is one of the first books to explore visual art as a mode of experiencing the world itself, showing how in the words of Merleau-Ponty ‘Painting does not imitate the world, but...
Oxford University Press, 2008. — 270 p. Glenn Parsons and Allen Carlson offer an in-depth philosophical study of the relationship between function and aesthetic value, breaking with the philosophical tradition of seeing the two as separate. They begin by developing and defending, in a general way, the concept of Functional Beauty, exploring how the role of function in aesthetic...
Chicago: University Of Chicago Press, 2013. — 176 p. — ISBN10: 022607949X; ISBN13: 978-0226079493. In his Berlin lectures on fine art, Hegel argued that art involves a unique form of aesthetic intelligibility — the expression of a distinct collective self-understanding that develops through historical time. Hegel’s approach to art has been influential in a number of different...
Wiley-Blackwell. 2010. — 152 p. — ISBN: 1444333631 Applying a philosophical approach to literature is gathering momentum as an increasingly influential field of study. Philosophy of Literature features six newly-commissioned essays that address some of the issues at the vanguard of this thriving and important branch of aesthetics. A team of leading international literary and...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. — xv, 290 p. — ISBN: 978-3-319-33147-8. This book is about the interaction between literary studies and the philosophy of literature. It features essays from internationally renowned and emerging philosophers and literary scholars, challenging readers to join them in taking seriously the notion of interdisciplinary study and forging forward in new and...
Oxford; Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2002. — 552 p. — (Blackwell Companions in Cultural Studies) — ISBN: 0-631-20762-7. This survey of art theory in the context of Western visual art consists of 41 original essays written by experts in the field. Following an extensive introduction on the formation of modern art theory, the Companion is organized chronologically so that readers can...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. — xv, 301 p. — ISBN 978-3-319-94072-4. This book examines the little understood end-of-art theses of Hegel, Nietzsche, and Danto. The end-of-art claim is often associated with the end of a certain standard of taste or skill. However, at a deeper level, it relates to a transformation in how we philosophically understand our relation to the ‘world’....
Picador, 2012. — 845. — ISBN: 9781466802179. From the turbulent years of her trip to Hanoi at the peak of the Vietnam War to her time making films in Sweden and up to the eve of the 1980 election, As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh documents the evolution of an extraordinary mind. The 1966 publication of Against Interpretation propelled Susan Sontag from the periphery of...
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007. — 406 p. — ISBN: 9781429922975. "A writer is someone who pays attention to the world," Susan Sontag said in her 2003 acceptance speech for the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, and no one exemplified this definition more than she. Sontag's incisive intelligence, expressive brilliance, and deep curiosity about art, politics, and the writer's...
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 2008. — 318 p. — ISBN10: 0374100748; ISBN13: 978-0374100742 "I intend to do everything...to have one way of evaluating experience--does it cause me pleasure or pain, and I shall be very cautious about rejecting the painful--I shall anticipate pleasure everywhere and find it too, for it is everywhere! I shall involve myself wholly...everything...
Picador, 2013. — 485 p. — ISBN: 978166853584. Styles of Radical Will is a collection of essays by Susan Sontag published in 1969. The book contains a collection of personal essays on film, literature, politics and pornography. Styles of Radical Will is Sontag's second nonfiction published works. Her first nonfiction book is titled Against Interpretation and Other Personal...
Routledge, 2013. — 225 p. The relationship between philosophy and theatre is a central theme in the writings of Plato and Aristotle and of dramatists from Aristophanes to Stoppard. Where Plato argued that playwrights and actors should be banished from the ideal city for their suspect imitations of reality, Aristotle argued that theatre, particularly tragedy, was vital for...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2016. — 207 p. — (Foundations of the Philosophy of the Arts). — ISBN10: 1405150637, 13 978-1405150637. Black is Beautiful identifies and explores the most significant philosophical issues that emerge from the aesthetic dimensions of black life, providing a long-overdue synthesis and the first extended philosophical treatment of this crucial subject. The first...
Northwestern University Press Evanston, Illinois, 2007. — 490 p. — (Northwestern university studies in phenomenology and existential philosophy). By contextualizing Merleau-Ponty’s writings on the philosophy of art and politics within the overall development of his thought, our volume allows the reader to see both the breadth of Merleau-Ponty’s contribution to twentieth-century...
New York, Fordham University Press, 2010. — xiv + 329 p. The Doppelgänger or Double presents literature as the double of philosophy. There are historical reasons for this. The genesis of the Doppelgänger is literature's response to the philosophical focus on subjectivity. The Doppelgänger was coined by the German author Jean Paul in 1796 as a critique of Idealism's assertion of...
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