The Nature of Art An Anthology

by Wartenberg, Thomas E.

• ISBN13: 9781111186524
• ISBN10: 1111186529
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-01-21
• Publisher: Cengage Learning

Summary

What is art? THE NATURE OF ART: AN ANTHOLOGY explores that question and shows you how it has been answered over the years by both Western and non-Western thinkers. You will not only read selections from these great writers but you will also get study questions that draw your attention to the key points you just read. Hailed by reviewers and adopters for its clarity and rigor, Wartenberg's THE NATURE OF ART offers a lively and engaging introduction to the philosophy of art.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Third Edition

Introduction: What Makes "Art" such a Problematic Concept?

Art as Imitation: Plato

Art as Cognition: Aristotle

Art as Object of Taste: David Hume

Art as Communicable Pleasure: Immanuel Kant

Art as Revelation: Arthur Schopenhauer

Art as the Ideal: G. W. F. Hegel

Art as Redemption: Friedrich Nietzsche

Art as Communication of Feeling: Leo N. Tolstoy

Art as Symptom: Sigmund Freud

Art as Significant Form: Clive Bell

Art as Expression: R. G. Collingwood

Art as Experience: John Dewey

Art as Truth: Martin Heidegger

Art as Auratic: Walter Benjamin

Art as Indefinable: Morris Weitz

Art as Symbolic Form: Suzanne K. Langer

Art as Exemplification: Nelson Goodman

Art as Industry: Theodor W. Adorno

Art as Theory: Arthur Danto

Art as Institution: George Dickie

Art as Epistemology: Michel Foucault

Art as Aesthetic Production: Monroe C. Beardsley

Art as Practice: Nöel Carroll

Art as Make-Believe: Kendall Walton

Art as Deconstructable: Jacques Derrida

Art as Feminism: Carolyn Korsmeyer

Art as Cultural Production: Pierre Bourdieu

Art as Simulation: Jean Baudrillard

Art as Postcolonial: Kwame Anthony Appiah

Art as a Cluster Concept: Berys Gaut

Art as the Arts: Dominic McIver Lopes

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