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Subject: philosophy of art: Publisher: ... Pages: 384 pp. ISBN: 1405102403: Contemporary Debates in Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art is a 2005 book edited by ...
Much traditional discussion of aesthetic philosophy seeks to establish criteria of artistic quality that are indifferent to the subject matter being depicted. Since all literary works, almost by definition, contain notional content, aesthetic theories that rely on purely formal qualities tend to overlook literature.
Arthur Danto, The Transfiguration of the Commonplace: A Philosophy of Art, 1981; Noël Carroll, The Philosophy of Horror, or Paradoxes of the Heart, 1990; Kendall Walton, Mimesis as Make-Believe: On The Foundations of the Representational Arts, 1990; Richard Shusterman, Pragmatist Aesthetics: Living Beauty, Rethinking Art, 1992/2000; Arthur ...
Martin Heidegger: Politics, Art, and Technology. New York: Holmes; Schapiro, Meyer. 1994. “The Still Life as a Personal Object - A Note on Heidegger and van Gogh”, ”Further Notes on Heidegger and van Gogh”, in: Theory and Philosophy of Art: Style, Artist, and Society, Selected papers 4, New York: George Braziller, 135-142; 143-151.
Protagoras is also believed to have created a major controversy during ancient times through his statement that "Of all things the measure is Man, of the things that are, that they are, and of the things that are not, that they are not" which was usually rendered simply as "Man is the measure of all things," interpreted (possibly wrongly, since ...
In his opinion, the neoplastic art will in future replace religion. And artist's role – "as priest of this religious art – will consist in helping the common man reach the desired after inner balance." [84] [note 15] Mondrian chose for his "monumental triptych" Evolution, a theme which is one of the main doctrines in the Theosophical teaching.
The Century (book) Chinese Gung Fu: The Philosophical Art of Self-Defense; Cinema and Death: on Image and Immortality; The City of God; The Closing of the American Mind; Commentaries on Living; The Concept of Mind; The Conditions of Philosophy; The Conscious Mind; The Consolations of Philosophy; A Constructive Survey of Upanishadic Philosophy
In philosophy and the arts, a fundamental distinction exists between abstract and concrete entities. While there is no universally accepted definition, common examples illustrate the difference: numbers, sets, and ideas are typically classified as abstract objects, whereas plants, dogs, and planets are considered concrete objects.