LEADER 03108nam 22005533u 450 001 9910464990903321 005 20210114024011.0 010 $a1-283-60488-4 010 $a9786613917331 010 $a1-134-46981-0 035 $a(CKB)2560000000092976 035 $a(EBL)200129 035 $a(OCoLC)475908911 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC200129 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000092976 100 $a20130418d2012|||| u|| | 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 200 10$aRevealing Art$b[electronic resource] 210 $aHoboken $cTaylor and Francis$d2012 215 $a1 online resource (291 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-415-27853-8 327 $aFront 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 327 $aThe 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 330 $aWhy 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 606 $aAesthetics 606 $aAesthetics 606 $aArt - Philosophy 606 $aArt - Philosophy 606 $aArt appreciation 606 $aPhilosophy 608 $aElectronic books. 615 4$aAesthetics. 615 4$aAesthetics. 615 4$aArt - Philosophy. 615 4$aArt - Philosophy. 615 4$aArt appreciation. 615 4$aPhilosophy. 676 $a701.1 676 $a701/.17 700 $aKieran$b Matthew$0942646 801 0$bAU-PeEL 801 1$bAU-PeEL 801 2$bAU-PeEL 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910464990903321 996 $aRevealing Art$92127231 997 $aUNINA