Aesthetics and painting / / Jason Gaiger

• Autore: Gaiger Jason
• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Continuum, , 2008
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (205 p.)
• Disciplina: 750.1
• Soggetto topico: Aesthetics; Painting - Philosophy
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages 144-173) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Painting and philosophy -- A window onto the world -- Surface and subject -- Resemblance and denotation -- Pictorial style -- Modernism and the avant-garde.
• Sommario/riassunto: Aesthetics and Painting introduces and opens up current debates and ideas in the aesthetics of painting. At the book's center is an investigation of the complex relationship between what a painting depicts and the means by which it is depicted. The book looks at: how and why painting may be distinguished from other art forms; the relationship between the painted surface and the depicted subject; the "rules of representation" specific to painting; abstract art and nonrepresentational painting; the most recent technological and aesthetic developments and their implications; the role of the artist-and that of the spectator. A sophisticated treatment of major ideas in art and philosophy, Aesthetics and Painting remains highly readable throughout, offering a clear and coherent account of the nature of painting as an art form
• Titolo autorizzato: Aesthetics and painting
• ISBN: 9786612870934; 9781441154583; 1441154582; 9781472545381; 1472545389; 9781282870932; 1282870939; 9781441103642; 1441103643
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910967471803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Continuum aesthetics.