The Philosophy of Art (eBook)

Stephen Davies (Herausgeber)

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2017 | 2. Auflage
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
9781119091776 (ISBN)

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Now available in a fully revised and updated second edition, this accessible and insightful introduction outlines the central theories and ongoing debates in the philosophy of art.

• Covers a wide range of topics, including the definition and interpretation of art, the connections between artistic and ethical judgment, and the expression and elicitation of emotions through art
• Includes discussion of prehistoric, non-Western, and popular mass arts, extending the philosophical conversation beyond the realm of Fine Art
• Details concrete applications of complex theoretical concepts
• Poses thought-provoking questions and offers fully updated annotated reading lists at the end of each chapter to encourage and enable further research

Stephen Davies is a Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of Auckland. A former president of the American Society for Aesthetics, he is the author of several books, including The Artful Species (2012), Philosophical Perspectives on Art (2007), and Themes in the Philosophy of Music (2003)

Inhalt

Title Page 5
Copyright Page 6
Contents 7
List of Figures 8
Preface 9
Acknowledgments 12
Chapter 1 Evolution and Culture 13
1 A Biological Basis for Art 13
2 The Cultural Invention of Art 16
3 The Big and the Small Picture 20
4 “It all depends what you mean by the word ‘art’” 21
Applications and Connections – the Museum, Tourist Art, Popular Art, and Ancient Art 24
Questions 31
Readings 33
Chapter 2 Defining Art 36
1 Necessary Conditions and Sufficient Conditions 36
2 Essentialism and Anti-Essentialism 38
3 Arguments against Art’s Definition 39
4 If Not an Essence, What Unifies the Concept of Art? 42
5 Some Definitions of Art 45
Aesthetic functionalism 45
The institutional theory 48
Historicism 49
A mixed approach 50
6 Definitions and Non-Western Art 51
7 Taking Stock 52
Applications and Connections – Intuition versus Definition, Art’s Value and Definition, Euthyphro and Experts 53
Questions 58
Readings 59
Chapter 3 Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art 61
1 Aesthetic and Artistic Properties 62
An illustration 65
2 The Aesthetic Attitude and Art for Art’s Sake 68
3 Aesthetic Theory Criticized 69
4 Artworks that Pose a Challenge to Aesthetic Theory 74
5 Art’s Contextually Relative Properties 78
6 Art for Art’s Sake, Again 81
Applications and Connections – Copies and Misattributions, Viscera and Understanding, Aesthetics of the Everyday 82
Questions 88
Readings 89
Chapter 4 Varieties of Art 92
1 Artworks as Public Items 93
2 Are Artworks Created or Discovered? 95
3 Are all Artworks Potentially Multiple? 97
4 Multiply Instanced Artworks 101
5 New Works Based on Old Ones 103
6 The Ontological Variety of Works of Art 105
7 Is the Identity of an Artwork Fixed or Evolving? 106
Applications and Connections – Musical Recordings, Colorized Movies, the Matter Replicator 109
Questions 115
Readings 116
Chapter 5 Interpretation 118
1 When Is Interpretation Necessary? 119
2 What Is Interpreted? 120
3 Actual Intentionalism 123
4 Hypothetical Intentionalism 128
5 Value Maximization 131
6 Uses for Interpretation 133
7 Theory-Driven Interpretations 134
8 Does Interpretation Change the Work’s Meaning? 136
9 What is Interpretation’s Primary Purpose? 138
Questions 139
Readings 141
Chapter 6 Expression and Emotional Responses 143
1 The Nature of Emotions 146
2 Identifying Others’ Emotions 148
3 Identifying the Emotions in Art 149
4 The Expression of Emotion in Music and Abstract Art 152
5 The Emotional Response of the Audience to the Work of Art 160
Responding to fictions 160
Responding to tragedies 164
Responding to the expressiveness of instrumental music and abstract art 167
Questions 169
Readings 170
Chapter 7 Pictorial Representation and the Visual Arts 173
1 The Experience of Representation 174
2 Representation and Resemblance 177
3 Representation: Culture and Biology, Again 179
4 Art versus Non-Art: A Matter of Style 181
5 Representation in Photographs and Paintings 189
6 Photographic Representation 192
7 Photography as an Art 195
8 Moving Images 199
Questions 201
Readings 202
Chapter 8 The Value of Art 205
1 Evaluation and Functionality 208
2 Rules, Universality, and Objectivity in Artistic Evaluation 210
3 The Purpose and Form of Artistic Evaluation 213
4 What Is Rewarding about the Experience of Art? 215
Value and pleasure 215
Art and education 219
5 Messages through Art 223
6 The Relation between Artistic and Moral Values 224
7 Should a Work’s Immorality Undermine its Claims to Artistic Merit? 226
8 Morality in Documentaries and Fictions 230
Questions 232
Readings 234
Index 237
Supplemental Images 245
EULA 253

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 5.5.2017
• Reihe/Serie: Foundations of the Philosophy of the Arts
• Reihe/Serie: Foundations of the Philosophy of the Arts
• Reihe/Serie: Foundations of the Philosophy of the Arts
• Mitarbeit: Herausgeber (Serie): Philip Alperson
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
• Schlagworte: Aesthetics • Andy Warhol • Art & Applied Arts • Art History • Artistic Interpretation • art theory • Ästhetik • Ästhetik • Caravaggio • Evolution • Kunst • Kunst u. Angewandte Kunst • <p>Aesthetics • Marcel Duchamp • Philosophie • Philosophie der Kunst • Philosophy • philosophy of art • Piet Mondrian • Van Gogh • visual art</p>
• ISBN-13: 9781119091776 / 9781119091776