03108nam 22005533u 450 991046499090332120210114024011.01-283-60488-497866139173311-134-46981-0(CKB)2560000000092976(EBL)200129(OCoLC)475908911(MiAaPQ)EBC200129(EXLCZ)99256000000009297620130418d2012|||| u|| |engur|n|---|||||Revealing Art[electronic resource]Hoboken Taylor and Francis20121 online resource (291 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-415-27853-8 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 artThe 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; IndexWhy 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 fascinatinAestheticsAestheticsArt - PhilosophyArt - PhilosophyArt appreciationPhilosophyElectronic books.Aesthetics.Aesthetics.Art - Philosophy.Art - Philosophy.Art appreciation.Philosophy.701.1701/.17Kieran Matthew942646AU-PeELAU-PeELAU-PeELBOOK9910464990903321Revealing Art2127231UNINA