What Art is: The Esthetic Theory of Ayn RandCultural icon Ayn Rand (1905-1982) was known as much for her philosophy as for her fiction. Her original theory of esthetics, which attacks many "masterpieces" of modernist art, is as combative and controversial as any of her work, but until now has received little serious scrutiny. In What Art Is, the authors demonstrate that Rand's ideas are supported by evidence from other academic fields. |
Contents
1 | 23 |
Philosophy and Sense of Life | 35 |
3 Art and Sense of Life | 43 |
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What Art is: The Esthetic Theory of Ayn Rand Louis Torres,Michelle Marder Kamhi No preview available - 2000 |
What Art is: The Esthetic Theory of Ayn Rand Louis Torres,Michelle Marder Kamhi No preview available - 2000 |
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abstract art Abstract Expressionism Abstract Expressionists abstract painting According American architecture argues Art and Cognition art forms art historian artist artworld aspects Atlas Shrugged avant-garde Ayn Rand Barnett Newman basic beauty Branden Cage Cage's century Chapter characterized cited claim color concept conceptual art concrete consciousness contemporary context contrast creative critics culture Cunningham dance decorative art definition of art E. H. Gombrich emotional emphasis essay essential esthetic example exhibition experience expression feeling fiction film function fundamental Hilton Kramer human ideas images implies important integrated Jackson Pollock John Cage Kandinsky literary literature man's Mark Rothko meaning mind Modern Art modernist Mondrian movement Museum Nathaniel Branden nature notes Objectivist objects observes one's painter perception philosophy photographs poetry Pollock primary principle quoted Rand's Rand's view refers regarding representation Rothko sense style suggests term theory of art tion traditional twentieth-century values visual arts Voice of Fire writing York
References to this book
Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged: A Philosophical and Literary Companion Edward Wayne Younkins Limited preview - 2007 |