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What Art Is
Author | : Arthur C. Danto |
Publsiher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 190 |
Release | : 2013-03-19 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780300174878 |
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One of America's most celebrated art critics offers a lively meditation on the nature of art.
What Is Art and Essays on Art
Author | : Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy |
Publsiher | : Read Books Ltd |
Total Pages | : 327 |
Release | : 2020-10-16 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9781528769648 |
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Originally published in 1930, this book contains the widely respected essay 'What Is Art', by the well-known Russian writer Leo Tolstoy, and is highly recommended for inclusion on the bookshelf of any fan of his works. Many of these earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
What Is Art For
Author | : Ellen Dissanayake |
Publsiher | : University of Washington Press |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2015-09-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780295998381 |
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Every human society displays some form of behavior that can be called “art,” and in most societies other than our own the arts play an integral part in social life. Those who wish to understand art in its broadest sense, as a universal human endowment, need to go beyond modern Western elitist notions that disregard other cultures and ignore the human species’ four-million-year evolutionary history. This book offers a new and unprecedentedly comprehensive theory of the evolutionary significance of art. Art, meaning not only visual art, but music, poetic language, dance, and performance, is for the first time regarded from a biobehavioral or ethical viewpoint. It is shown to be a biological necessity in human existence and fundamental characteristic of the human species. In this provocative study, Ellen Dissanayake examines art along with play and ritual as human behaviors that “make special,” and proposes that making special is an inherited tendency as intrinsic to the human species as speech and toolmaking. She claims that the arts evolved as means of making socially important activities memorable and pleasurable, and thus have been essential to human survival. Avoiding simplism and reductionism, this original synthetic approach permits a fresh look at old questions about the origins, nature, purpose, and value of art. It crosses disciplinary boundaries and integrates a number of divers fields: human ethology; evolutionary biology; the psychology and philosophy of art; physical and cultural anthropology; “primitive” and prehistoric art; Western cultural history; and children’s art. The final chapter, “From Tradition to Aestheticism,” explores some of the ways in which modern Western society has diverged from other societies--particularly the type of society in which human beings evolved--and considers the effects of the aberrance on our art and our attitudes toward art. This book is addressed to readers who have a concerned interest in the arts or in human nature and the state of modern society.
Introduction to Art Design Context and Meaning
Author | : Pamela Sachant,Peggy Blood,Jeffery LeMieux,Rita Tekippe |
Publsiher | : Good Press |
Total Pages | : 614 |
Release | : 2023-11-27 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : EAN:8596547679363 |
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Introduction to Art: Design, Context, and Meaning offers a deep insight and comprehension of the world of Art. Contents: What is Art? The Structure of Art Significance of Materials Used in Art Describing Art - Formal Analysis, Types, and Styles of Art Meaning in Art - Socio-Cultural Contexts, Symbolism, and Iconography Connecting Art to Our Lives Form in Architecture Art and Identity Art and Power Art and Ritual Life - Symbolism of Space and Ritual Objects, Mortality, and Immortality Art and Ethics
What is Art
Author | : Stefanie Bringezu |
Publsiher | : Hatje Cantz |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Aesthetics |
ISBN | : 3775735275 |
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Publication contains 27 questions posed by high school students and answered by art educators from the Fondation Beyeler, along with Swiss art experts.
What is Art All About
Author | : Desiderius Orban |
Publsiher | : Van Nostrand Reinhold Company |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : UCSD:31822011299120 |
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What Is Contemporary Art
Author | : Terry Smith |
Publsiher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 345 |
Release | : 2012-08-10 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780226131672 |
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Who gets to say what counts as contemporary art? Artists, critics, curators, gallerists, auctioneers, collectors, or the public? Revealing how all of these groups have shaped today’s multifaceted definition, Terry Smith brilliantly shows that an historical approach offers the best answer to the question: What is Contemporary Art? Smith argues that the most recognizable kind is characterized by a return to mainstream modernism in the work of such artists as Richard Serra and Gerhard Richter, as well as the retro-sensationalism of figures like Damien Hirst and Takashi Murakami. At the same time, Smith reveals, postcolonial artists are engaged in a different kind of practice: one that builds on local concerns and tackles questions of identity, history, and globalization. A younger generation embodies yet a third approach to contemporaneity by investigating time, place, mediation, and ethics through small-scale, closely connective art making. Inviting readers into these diverse yet overlapping art worlds, Smith offers a behind-the-scenes introduction to the institutions, the personalities, the biennials, and of course the works that together are defining the contemporary. The resulting map of where art is now illuminates not only where it has been but also where it is going.
How Art Works
Author | : Ellen Winner |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780190863357 |
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"How Art Works explores puzzles that have preoccupied philosophers as well as the general public: Can art be defined? How do we decide what is good art? Why do we gravitate to sadness in art? Why do we devalue a perfect fake? Could 'my kid have done that'? Does reading fiction enhance empathy? Drawing on careful observations, probing interviews, and clever experiments, Ellen Winner reveals surprising answers to these and other artistic mysteries. We may come away with a new understanding of how art works on us."--Jacket.