What Artistry Can Do
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4744-9490-8 (ISBN)
This collection of 12 essays by the Belgian philosopher and theorist Bart Verschaffel addresses the meaning and relevance of art today. Written over the course of his career, they cover a rich and inventive range of topics: from mockery and laughter to the artwork as a ‘gift’, and from caricature to splendour. This is the first synoptic collection of Verschaffel’s work, with many of the essays translated into English for the first time.
Bart Verschaffel is a philosopher and Professor of Theory of Architecture and Architectural Criticism at Ghent University in Belgium. He has published widely in the fields of Architectural Theory, Aesthetics, Visual Arts and Philosophy of Culture. In addition, he has curated exhibitions, authored essays and written documentary film scripts on artists such as Giambattista Piranesi, Anthony Gormley and Thierry De Cordier. His published books include What Is Real? What Is True? Picturing Figures and Faces (A&S/books, 2021), Mock Humanity! Two Essays on James Ensor’s Grotesques (A&S/Books-Plantin, 2018). He serves as director of the VANDENHOVE Centre for Architecture and Art at Ghent University, where he oversees the Charles Vandenhove art collection.
Preface
Introduction: Art as a Form of Understanding
First Ideas on Art, Being Moved and Criticism
Critical?Art
What Art Can Do (Malpertuis by Jean Ray)
On the Pleasure of Finding What Is Hidden (With Hidden Noise by Marcel Duchamp)
Memoria: Memory Work and the ‘Conversation of Mankind’
Aspects of Artistry
On Laughter, Opinions and Artistic Freedom
Notes on the Work of Art as a Gift
Being an Artist Is an Art in Itself: On the ‘First Work’ and the Notion of ‘Oeuvre’
Double-speak; Elementary Aesthetics
On Splendour and Modern Beauty
Fatal Truths: Notes on the Beauty Experience
On the Aesthetic Gaze, Beauty and the Two Sources of Ugliness
| Erscheinungsdatum | 17.08.2022 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Refractions |
| Zusatzinfo | 12 colour illustrations |
| Verlagsort | Edinburgh |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 210 x 210 mm |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4744-9490-0 / 1474494900 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4744-9490-8 / 9781474494908 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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