Thinking Art An Introduction to Philosophy of Art /

• Main Author: Braembussche, Antoon Van den (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2009.
• Subjects: Culture > Study and teaching.; Arts.; Fine arts.; Aesthetics.; Cultural and Media Studies.; Fine Arts.

In the twentieth century, avant-garde movements have pushed the concept of art far beyond its traditional boundaries. In this dynamical process of constant renewal the prestige of thinking about art as a legitimizing practice has come to the fore. So it is hardly surprising that the past decades hav...

Table of Contents:

• The Nature of Art: Classical Answers to the Question “What Is Art?”
• Introduction: What Is Philosophy of Art?
• The Nature of Art: Classical Answers to the Question “What Is Art?”
• The Imitation Theory
• Expression Theories
• Formalism
• Art as a Synthesis of Form and Expression
• Aesthetic Judgment: The Legacy of Kant
• Art in a Historical and Social Perspective
• ‘The End of Art’: The Contemporary Interest in Hegel
• Art and Society: A Neomarxist Perspective
• The Language of Art: From Phenomenology to Poststructuralism
• The Phenomenological Perspective
• The Modern Version of Formalism: The Semiotic Point of View
• The Post-structuralist Perspective
• Epilogue.