03706nam 2200673 a 450 991017224080332120230209230441.01-282-15722-197866121572261-4008-2530-X10.1515/9781400825301(CKB)1000000000788388(EBL)457813(OCoLC)436044574(SSID)ssj0000099607(PQKBManifestationID)11122383(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000099607(PQKBWorkID)10014730(PQKB)10367894(MdBmJHUP)muse36124(DE-B1597)446402(OCoLC)979834596(DE-B1597)9781400825301(Au-PeEL)EBL457813(CaPaEBR)ebr10312514(CaONFJC)MIL215722(MiAaPQ)EBC457813(PPN)256677956(EXLCZ)99100000000078838820011109h20022002 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe aesthetics of mimesis ancient texts and modern problems /Stephen HalliwellCourse BookPrinceton, N.J. :Princeton University Press,2002.©20021 online resource (ix, 424 pages)Description based upon print version of record.0-691-04882-7 0-691-09258-3 Includes bibliographical references (p. [383]-417) and index.Frontmatter --Contents --Preface --Acknowledgments --Note to the Reader --INTRODUCTION: Mimesis and the History of Aesthetics --PART I --PART II --PART III --Bibliography --IndexMimesis is one of the oldest, most fundamental concepts in Western aesthetics. This book offers a new, searching treatment of its long history at the center of theories of representational art: above all, in the highly influential writings of Plato and Aristotle, but also in later Greco-Roman philosophy and criticism, and subsequently in many areas of aesthetic controversy from the Renaissance to the twentieth century. Combining classical scholarship, philosophical analysis, and the history of ideas--and ranging across discussion of poetry, painting, and music--Stephen Halliwell shows with a wealth of detail how mimesis, at all stages of its evolution, has been a more complex, variable concept than its conventional translation of "imitation" can now convey. Far from providing a static model of artistic representation, mimesis has generated many different models of art, encompassing a spectrum of positions from realism to idealism. Under the influence of Platonist and Aristotelian paradigms, mimesis has been a crux of debate between proponents of what Halliwell calls "world-reflecting" and "world-simulating" theories of representation in both the visual and musico-poetic arts. This debate is about not only the fraught relationship between art and reality but also the psychology and ethics of how we experience and are affected by mimetic art. Moving expertly between ancient and modern traditions, Halliwell contends that the history of mimesis hinges on problems that continue to be of urgent concern for contemporary aesthetics.AestheticsHistoryMimesis in artAestheticsHistory.Mimesis in art.111/.85Halliwell Stephen170027MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910172240803321The aesthetics of mimesis1925151UNINA