LEADER 03516nam 2200601 a 450 001 9910462302503321 005 20211102015046.0 010 $a0-674-07170-0 010 $a0-674-06795-9 024 7 $a10.4159/harvard.9780674067950 035 $a(CKB)2670000000276911 035 $a(StDuBDS)AH24663080 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000757276 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11434994 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000757276 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10759307 035 $a(PQKB)11697058 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3301172 035 $a(DE-B1597)177966 035 $a(OCoLC)818953037 035 $a(OCoLC)840443979 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674067950 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3301172 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10627467 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000276911 100 $a20120314d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aWhat art is like, in constant reference to the Alice books$b[electronic resource] /$fMiguel Tamen 210 $aCambridge, Mass. $cHarvard University Press$d2012 215 $a1 online resource (117 p.) 300 $aFormerly CIP.$5Uk 311 0 $a0-674-06706-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIntroduction. What to expect --$t1 Ideas (§§1-55) --$t2 Furniture (§§56-103) --$t3 A Mistake (§§104-150) --$t4 What Happens (§§151-199) --$tAnalytical Table of Contents --$tIndex of Citations --$tAcknowledgments --$tIndex 330 $aWhat Art Is Like is a comic, serious inquiry into the nature of art. It provides welcome relief from prevailing modes of explaining art that involve definitions, philosophical claims, and critical judgments put forth by third parties. Scrapping all such chatter, Miguel Tamen's aphoristic lark with aesthetic questions proceeds by taking its technical vocabulary only from Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass. According to Tamen, it would be ridiculous to think of poems or paintings or films or any variety of artistic production as distinct from other things in the world, including people. Talking about art should be contiguous with talking about many other relevant and important matters. Tamen offers a series of analogies and similes to help us imagine these connected experiences. One, taken from the analytical table of contents where the book is writ small, suggests that "understanding a poem is like understanding a cat; neither ever says anything back and you can't keep a conversation with them. All art is like this, but not only art is like this; nature, the past, numbers are also like this." Tamen takes up many central issues in aesthetics and the philosophy of art, including the connection between art and having fuzzy ideas about art, the mistake of imagining that art-decisions are put forth by art-courts where you are both judge and jury, and the notion that what happens with art also happens to you. 606 $aArt$xPhilosophy 606 $aAlice (Fictitious character : Carroll) 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aArt$xPhilosophy. 615 0$aAlice (Fictitious character : Carroll) 676 $a701 700 $aTamen$b Miguel$0678339 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910462302503321 996 $aWhat art is like, in constant reference to the Alice books$92448019 997 $aUNINA