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Kieran Matthew |
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Titolo |
Revealing Art [[electronic resource]] |
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Hoboken, : Taylor and Francis, 2012 |
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ISBN |
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1-283-60488-4 |
9786613917331 |
1-134-46981-0 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (291 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Aesthetics |
Art - Philosophy |
Art appreciation |
Philosophy |
Electronic books. |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Front Cover; Revealing Art; Copyright Page; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter One. Originality and Artistic Expression; Priceless; Faking it; Originality; Artistic achievements; The triumph of artistic imagination; Chapter Two. Beauty Resurrected; The death of beauty?; The sensual, the beautiful and the good; The virtues of aestheticism; The cult of aesthetic appreciation; Ugliness, the grotesque and the disgusting; Meaning matters; Chapter Three. Insight in Art; Art's craft; Illuminating the familiar; The triviality of art?; Truth in art |
The challenge of the avant-garde and conceptual artThe art of discrimination; Chapter Four. Art and Morality; Moralisers against art; The erotic and the pornographic; Moral questions; Moralising art; Immoral art; Forbidden knowledge; Obscenity, censoriousness and censorship; Chapter Five. The Truth in Humanism; Where we are now; A standard of taste?; Ideal art critics and actual motivation; Blameless differences and relativity; Counsels of despair; The renewal of humanistic art; Notes; Bibliography and Suggested Reading; Index |
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Why does art matter to us, and what makes it good? Why is the role of imagination so important in art? Illustrated with carefully chosen colour and black-and-white plates of examples from Michaelangelo to Matisse and Poussin to Pollock, Revealing Art takes us on a compelling and provocative journey.Kieran explores some of the most important questions we can ask ourselves about art: how can art inspire us or disgust us? Is artistic judgement simply a matter of taste? Can art be immoral or obscene, and should it be censored? He brings such abstract issues to life with fascinatin |
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