An Introduction to the Philosophy of Art

Richard Eldridge

Cambridge University Press, 25 sep 2003 - 285 pagina's

Richard Eldridge presents a clear and compact survey of philosophical theories of the nature and significance of art. Drawing on materials from classical and contemporary philosophy as well as from literary theory and art criticism, he explores the representational, expressive, and formal dimensions of art, and he argues that works of art present their subject matter in ways that are of enduring cognitive, moral, and social interest. His accessible study will be invaluable to students and to all readers who are interested in the relation between thought and art.

Inhoudsopgave

• The situation and tasks of the philosophy of art: 1
• Philosophy as articulation: 4
• Art as a natural social practice: 5
• Action gesture and expressive freedom: 7
• Schiller on art life and modernity: 12
• Identification versus elucidation: 17
• What may we hope for from the philosophy of art?: 21
• Representation imitation and resemblance: 25
• Aristotle on imitation: 26
• Visual depiction resemblance and gameplaying: 31
• Representing as natural human worldresponsive activity: 37
• Functions of artistic representation: 41
• Beauty and form: 47
• Kant on natural and artistic beauty: 51
• General versus individual form: 56
• Beardsleys theory of individual form: 57
• Criticisms of formalistaesthetic theories of art: 60
• Defenses of the aesthetic interest of art: 63
• Expression: 68
• What is expressed in art? Hegel versus Danto: 74
• How is artistic expression achieved?: 84
• Why does artistic expression matter?: 96
• Originality and imagination: 102
• Hegels criticisms of subjectivism: 107
• Adorno on free meaningmaking: 109
• postmodernism and feminism: 114
• Originality and imagination within common life: 119
• Scruton and Coleridge on artistic imagination: 122
• Understanding art: 128
• Hegel Baxandall and others: 131
• Abrams Fish and Derrida: 135
• The special importance of elucidation of formalsemantic elements: 142
• The possibility of agreement in understanding: 146
• Identifying and evaluating art: 150
• Smith and Bourdieu: 153
• Dickies institutional theory: 156
• Levinson and Carroll: 159
• Mothersill and Savile: 161
• Hume on feeling and judgment: 164
• Kant on feeling and judgment: 170
• Isenberg Scruton and Cohen on taste: 178
• Art and emotion: 183
• The paradox of fiction: 185
• Hume on tragedy: 187
• Walton Levinson and Feagin: 190
• Danto and Cohen: 195
• Aristotle on catharsis: 198
• Artistic making and the working through of emotion: 200
• Art and morality: 205
• Autonomism and experimentalism: 207
• Moralism and the clarification of thought and feeling: 214
• Art propaganda advertising and cliché: 222
• Ethical understanding and working through puzzlement: 225
• Art and society some contemporary practices of art: 231
• Schiller and others: 233
• Lukács Marcuse and Adorno: 239
• Lévi Strauss and Althusser: 241
• Fosters postmodern sociocultural criticism: 245
• Can artistic beauty still matter? What about fun?: 246
• Art and social aspiration: 248
• primitivism avantgardism vernacularism and constructivism: 249
• the evidence of things not seen: 259
• Bibliography: 264
• Index: 277

Over de auteur

Richard Eldridge is Professor of Philosophy at Swarthmore College and has published widely on the philosophy of art and literature.

Bibliografische gegevens

• Titel: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Art; Cambridge Introductions to Philosophy
• Auteur: Richard Eldridge
• Editie: herdruk
• Uitgever: Cambridge University Press, 2003
• ISBN: 052180521X, 9780521805216
• Lengte: 285 pagina's