Defining art, creating the canon: artistic value in an era of doubt/

Main Author: Crowther, Paul
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford: Oxford: Clarendon Press[ Oxford University Press, c2007]
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Normative aesthetics and artistic value
  • Culture and artistic value
  • Cultural exclusion and the definition of art
  • Defining art, defending the canon, contesting culture
  • The aesthetic and the artistic
  • From beauty to art : developing Kant's aesthetics
  • The scope and value of the artistic image
  • Distinctive modes of imaging
  • Twofoldness : pictorial art and the imagination
  • Between language and perception : literary metaphor
  • Musical meaning and value
  • Eternalizing the moment : artistic projections of time
  • Conclusion : the status and future of art.