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polychrome |
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"Only since the Romantic period has art been understood in terms of an ineffable aesthetic quality of things like poems, paintings, and sculptures, and the art-maker as endowed with an inexplicable power of creation. From the Greeks to the 18th century, art was conceived as techne--the skill and know-how by which things and states of affairs are ordered. Techne Theory shows how to use this concept to cut through the Romantic notion of art as a kind of magic by returning to the original sense of art as techne, the standpoint of the person who actually knows how to make a work of art. Understood as techne, art-making, like all other cultural accomplishments, is a form of work performed by an artisan who has inherited the know-how of previous generations of artisans. Along the way, Techne Theory cuts through the humanist-structuralist impasse over the question of artistic agency and explains what 'form' really means."--Bloomsbury Publishing |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Acknowledgements -- Part One: Fundamentals Chapter 1: Introduction: The Techne Standpoint -- Chapter 2: Art and Evolution -- Chapter 3: The Artist's Touch -- Part Two: Origins in Greek Philosophy Chapter 4: How Plato (Despite Himself) Invented Techne Theory -- Chapter 5: From Aristotle to Extended Mind -- Part Three: Where Do Poems Come From? Chapter 6: A Romantic View: Seamus Heaney -- Chapter 7: Excursus on the Nature of Language -- Chapter 8: An Anti-Romantic View: Paul Valéry -- Part Four: Studies in Modernist Techne Chapter 9: T.J. Clark's Picasso -- Chapter 10: What's Radical About Radical Painting? -- Chapter 11: The Techne of Kafka's Metamorphosis -- Part Five: Techne Metatheory Chapter 12: Universal Design Space and the Lines of Force -- Bibliography -- Index. |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Art -- Philosophy.
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Art -- Philosophy. |
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Creative ability -- Philosophy.
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Creative ability -- Philosophy. |
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Creative ability. |
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Philosophy. |
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Western philosophy, from c 1900. |
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Philosophy: aesthetics. |
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ART -- General. |
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Electronic books.
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Print version: Staten, Henry, 1946- Techne theory. London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2019 9781472592897 (OCoLC)1079157692 |
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9781472592910 (electronic book) |
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1472592913 (electronic book) |
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9781472592927 (electronic book) |
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1472592921 (electronic book) |
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9781350101371 (online) |
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1350101370 |
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9781472592897 (hardcover) |
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1472592891 (hardcover) |
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9781472592903 (paperback) |
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1472592905 (paperback) |
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