A theory of art [[electronic resource] /] / Karol Berger

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910455728203321
• Autore: Berger Karol <1947->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, : Oxford University Press, 2000
• ISBN: 0-19-515852-0; 0-19-978580-5; 1-280-47213-8; 9786610472130; 0-19-802952-7; 1-60256-354-3
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (302 p.)
• Disciplina: 700/.1
• Soggetti: Arts - Philosophy; Aesthetics; Poetics; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-276) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Contents""; ""PROLOGUE: THE FUNCTION AND VALUE OF ART""; ""PART I: AESTHETICS: THE ENDS OF ARTWORKS""; ""CHAPTER 1 AESTHETICS I. THE NATURE OF ART""; ""a. The Media of Culture""; ""b. Visual Media""; ""c. Music""; ""d. Language""; ""e. Works and Performances, Originals and Copies""; ""f. Representations and Arguments""; ""CHAPTER 2 AESTHETICS II. THE USES OF ART""; ""a. The Ethical Life""; ""b. Art and History""; ""c. Art and Philosophy""; ""d. Art, Religion, and the State""; ""e. Pleasure""; ""CHAPTER 3 AESTHETICS III. THE GENEALOGY OF MODERN EUROPEAN ART MUSIC""; ""a. Social Practices and Their Histories""""b. Functional and Autonomous Music""; ""c. The Rise of Mimetic Music""; ""d. The Rise of Abstract Music""; ""e. The Cold War of Mimesis and Abstraction""; ""f. The Significance of Abstraction""; ""PART II: POETICS AND HERMENEUTICS: THE CONTENTS AND INTERPRETATION OF ARTWORKS""; ""CHAPTER 4 POETICS I. DIEGESIS AND MIMESIS: THE ; POETIC MODES AND THE MATTER OF ARTISTIC PRESENTATION""; ""a. The Voices""; ""b. The Modes in Painting and Music""; ""c. The Author, Implied and Real, Dead and Alive""; ""CHAPTER 5 POETICS II. NARRATIVE AND LYRIC: THE POETIC FORMS AND THE OBJECT OF ARTISTIC PRESENTATION""""a. Narrative and Lyric""; ""b. The Forms in Painting and Music""; ""c. Action and Passion""; ""CHAPTER 6 HERMENEUTICS. INTERPRETATION AND ITS VALIDITY""; ""a. Interpretation: Metaphor and Metonymy""; ""b. Validity: Persuasion and Legitimacy""; ""EPILOGUE: THE POWER OF TASTE""; ""Notes""; ""Selected Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Z""
• Sommario/riassunto: This philosophical theory of art has three main objectives: to shift the focus of aesthetics from What is art? to What is art for?; to describe the social and historical situation of art today; and to combine aesthetics with poetics and hermeneutics.