A Theory of Art
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 12 December 2002
- ISBN 9780195158526
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages304 pages
- Size 155x236x22 mm
- Weight 435 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This philosophical theory of art, addressed to anyone with a serious interest in the arts, has three main objectives: to shift the focus of aesthetics from the question "What is art?"; to describe the social and historical situation of art today; and to combine aesthetics with poetics and hermeneutics. A distinctive feature of the book is its argument that music exemplifies the current condition of art in a particularly revealing fashion.
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What, if anything, has art to do with the rest of our lives, and in particular with those ethical and political issues that matter to us most? Will art created today be likely to play a role in our lives as profound as that of the best art of the past?
A Theory of Art shifts the focus of aesthetics from the traditional debate of "what is art?" to the engaging question of "what is art for?" Skillfully describing the social and historical situation of art today, author Karol Berger argues that music exemplifies the current condition of art in a radical, acute, and revealing fashion. He also uniquely combines aesthetics with poetics and hermeneutics. Offering a careful synthesis of a wide breadth of scholarship from art history, musicology, literary studies, political philosophy, ethics, and metaphysics, and written in a clear, accessible style, this book will appeal to anyone with a serious interest in the arts.
"Berger's goal in this book is to explain how art functions, and what is its purpose. By doing so, he hopes to provide a framework in which political debates (as well as philosophical ones) about the meaning and importance of art can become more fruitful....The book reveals an author of formidable intellectual power and erudition."--he Trenton Times
Table of Contents:
Prologue. The Function and value of art
Aesthetics: the end of artworks
Aesthetics I. The nature of art
Aesthetics II. The uses of art
Aesthetics III. The genealogy of modern European art music
Poetics and hermeneutics: the contents and interpretation of artworks
Poetics I. Diegesis and mimesis: the poetic modes and the matter of artistic presentation
Poetics II. Narrative and lyric: the poetic forms and the object of artistic presentation
Hermenetics. Interpretation and its validity
Epilogue. The power of taste
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