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Defining Art, Creating the Canon
What is art; why should we value it; and what allows us to say that one work is better than another? Traditional answers have emphasized aesthetic form. But this has been …
Aesthetics of Self-Becoming
This book shows that art involves an aesthetics of self-becoming, wherein we do not simply consume artistic meaning, but become empowered-by adapting ourselves to what creation in …
Critical Aesthetics and Postmodernism
In this monograph Paul Crowther seeks to overcome some of the antagonistic positions taken in recent debates about postmodernism. He addresses such issues as the relation between …
Meanings of Abstract Art
Traditional art is based on conventions of resemblance between the work and that which it is a representation "e;of"e;. Abstract art, in contrast, either adopts alternative …
The Kantian Aesthetic
The Kantian Aesthetic explains the kind of perceptual knowledge involved in aesthetic judgments. It does so by linking Kant's aesthetics to a critically upgraded account of his …
Phenomenologies of Art and Vision
Contemporarydiscussions of the image like to emphasize art's societal functions. Fewstudies come close to answering why pictures and sculptures fascinate andintrigue regardless of …
Understanding Modernisation in Criminal Justice
How have different criminal justice agencies responded to the modernization process? What forms does modernization take? What lessons can be drawn to influence the future shape …
Aesthetics, Imagination and the Unity of Experience
This is the first book to gather together R. K. Elliott's important essays on aesthetics. These essays put forward a number of common themes that together constitute a unified …
Theory of the Art Object
Meaning in the visual arts centers on how the physical work makes its content or presence visible. The art object is fundamental. Indeed, the different object forms of each visual …
The Transhistorical Image
Why are visual artworks experienced as having intrinsic significance or normative depth? Why are some works of art better able to manifest this significance than others? In this …
Cornish Studies Volume 9
The ninth volume in the acclaimed paperback series . . . the only county series that can legitimately claim to represent the past and present of a nation. …
Philosophy After Postmodernism
Formulating a new approach to philosophy which, instead of simply rejecting postmodern thought, tries to assimilate some of its main features, Paul Crowther identifies conceptual …