This book presents an up-to-date introduction to the subject that captures the excitement and passion of art itself. It opens by exploring why art is important to us and goes on to grip the reader with a discussion of all of the areas central to aesthetics: aesthetic experience, representation, expression, definition of art, evaluation, interpretation, structuralism and post-structuralism, truth and morality. It draws upon the great thinkers on art, Plato and Kant, Croce and Beardsley, including the most recent iconoclastic views of Barthes and Derrida.
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'A rigorous discussion of the central topics in current aesthetics, which contains much that is of interest...engaging for undergraduate readers.' - Mind
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entertaining as well as educational,
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This review is from: Aesthetics (Fundamentals in Philosophy Series , Vol 1) (Paperback)
This book was core reading for the aesthetics module of my philosophy major and I found it to be an engrossing read. Having seen Colin lecture in person it was fantastic to see that the man's colourful and creative intelligence had been well captured onto the page. His style is one that constantly challenges you to think for yourself and I found this book to be an excellent tool, teaching me how to dig out and sculpt my raw feelings on art. Informed, lively and, considering the fair depth he goes to on thinkers such as Benedetto Croce, a pleasantly flowing and illuminating read.
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Everything we are to study rests on the bedrock of the spontaneous reactions that we make, from earliest infancy, to nature and to created things. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Oxford University Press, British Journal of Aesthetics, Cambridge University Press, Hanfling's Philosophical, Helen Schlegel, Richard Wollheim, Harvard University Press, Lily Briscoe, Paul de Man, Cornell University Press, Duchamp's Fontaine, Humpty Dumpty, Alfred Prufrock, Beardsley's Aesthetics, Benedetto Croce, Frank Sibley, Jane Austen, Lady Chatterley, Ray Elliott, Andy Goldsworthy, John Watson, Kendal Walton, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society New!
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Everything we are to study rests on the bedrock of the spontaneous reactions that we make, from earliest infancy, to nature and to created things. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Oxford University Press, British Journal of Aesthetics, Cambridge University Press, Hanfling's Philosophical, Helen Schlegel, Richard Wollheim, Harvard University Press, Lily Briscoe, Paul de Man, Cornell University Press, Duchamp's Fontaine, Humpty Dumpty, Alfred Prufrock, Beardsley's Aesthetics, Benedetto Croce, Frank Sibley, Jane Austen, Lady Chatterley, Ray Elliott, Andy Goldsworthy, John Watson, Kendal Walton, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society New!
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- Howards End (Barnes & Noble Classics) by E.M. Forster on page 3, and page 187
- Wittgenstein and Derrida by Henry Staten on page 186, and Back Matter
- Howards End by Edward Morgan Forster on page 3, and page 187
- Howards End (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) by E. M. Forster on page 3, and page 187
- Stephen Hero by James Joyce on page 146
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