1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996354650303316

Titolo

Nature reviews Microbiology

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Nature Pub. Group, 2003-

ISSN

1740-1534

Disciplina

579.05

Soggetti

Microbiologia - Periodici

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Risorsa elettronica

Livello bibliografico

Periodico

Sommario/riassunto

La rivista pubblica recensioni, prospettive e commenti da tutto il campo della microbiologia.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910792089303321

Autore

Kieran Matthew

Titolo

Revealing art / / Matthew Kieran

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken, : Taylor and Francis, 2012

ISBN

0-203-64235-X

1-280-06296-7

1-134-46980-2

1-283-60488-4

9786613917331

1-134-46981-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (291 pages)

Disciplina

701.1

701/.17

Soggetti

Aesthetics

Art - Philosophy

Art appreciation

Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



Nota di contenuto

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 art; The 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

Sommario/riassunto

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 Michelangelo 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?