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A Theory Of Art

  • A Theory Of Art

  • Attribution

    Karol Berger

  • Publication Details

    Book, Oxford University Press, 2000

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     (LOWER LEVEL)  BH39 .B393 2000  AVAILABLE

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  • Description

    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. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)

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  • Notes

    • "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 question of "what is art for?" By investigating the functions of art, author Karol Berger shows that a rational debate on the proper allocation of public and private resources to the arts is possible."– BOOK JACKET

  • Contents

    • Prologue: The Function and Value of Art
    • Pt. I. Aesthetics: The Ends of Artworks. Ch. 1. Aesthetics I. The Nature of Art. Ch. 2. Aesthetics II. The Uses of Art. Ch. 3. Aesthetics III. The Genealogy of Modern European Art Music
    • Pt. II. Poetics and Hermeneutics: The Contents and Interpretation of Artworks. Ch. 4. Poetics I: Diegesis and Mimesis: The Poetic Modes and the Matter of Artistic Presentation. Ch. 5. Poetics II. Narrative and Lyric: The Poetic Forms and the Object of Artistic Presentation. Ch. 6. Hermeneutics. Interpretation and Its Validity
    • Epilogue: The Power of Taste

  • ISBN

    • 0195128605

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