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First edition. |
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1 online resource |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
Most philosophers of art of the modern period have concentrated their attention on engaging works of the arts as objects of disinterested aesthetic attention, and on the works that reward that modern of engagement, virtually ignoring the many other ways in which we engage works of the arts. The argument of this book is that it is important for philosophers to expand their attention and discuss as well the more important of those other ways in which we engage works of the arts. |
| Contents |
Cover; Art Rethought: The Social Practices of Art; Copyright; Preface; Contents; Chapter Introduction; PART ONE: THE GRAND NARRATIVE OF ART IN THE MODERN WORLD; Chapter 1: The Early Modern Revolution in the Arts; Art for contemplation; The birth of a concept; Disinterestedness; The emergence of an institutional base; The elitism; Shiner's alternative story; Chapter 2: Why the Revolution?; Chapter 3: The Grand Narrative and the Grand Narrative Theses; The art-historical thesis: the arts coming into their own; The sociological thesis: the arts as socially other and transcendent |
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Chapter 4: Wherein Lies the Worth of Disinterested Attention?Other ways of accounting for the worth of disinterested attention; Chapter 5: Art, Religion, and the Grand Narrative; Works of the arts as God-surrogates; Works of the arts as revelatory of divinity; Art as salvific; The artist as a creator like unto God; In conclusion; PART TWO: WHY THE GRAND NARRATIVE HAS TO GO; Chapter 6: The Inapplicability of the Grand Narrative to Recent Art ; The idea and origins of art history; The end of art history; Review; Chapter 7: Why the Grand Narrative Never Was Tenable |
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On the claim that to engage a work of the arts disinterestedly, one must engage it as an object of attentive viewing, listening, or readingOn the claim that the arts come into their own insofar as we engage works of the arts disinterestedly; On the claim that art for disinterested attention is unique in being socially other and transcendent; An objection; On the claim that the absence of external causal finality implies purely internal finality; PART THREE: A NEW FRAMEWORK FOR THINKING ABOUT THE ARTS; Chapter 8: The Arts as Social Practices; Modes of engagement and social practices |
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An exampleInternal vs. external goods; The arts as social practices; Should we be using some other concepts?; Is our social-practice framework for thinking about art a version of pragmatist aesthetics?; Afterword; Chapter 9: Meaning of Works of the Arts and of Artworks; Act-meaning; Maker-meaning and social practice-meaning; Maker-meaning and social practice-meaning in art; Other modes of meaning; Employing the framework; The problematic status of maker-meaning; Three kinds of art history; PART FOUR: MEMORIAL ART; Chapter 10: The Social Practices of Memorial Art |
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An example of memorial art criticismWhat is a memorial?; Do memorials always honor?; Paying honor; The selectivity of paying honor; Paying honor is not a basic action; Fittingness; Memorials, honoring, and memory; Remembering in order to honor; Works of the arts as memorials; Religious memorials; Chapter 11: The Memorial Meaning of the Mural Art of Belfast; The Belfast mural paintings and their social and political context; The Belfast unionist memorials; The Belfast nationalist memorials; Peace and the polemic of the memorials; PART FIVE: ART FOR VENERATION |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Art and society.
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Art and society. |
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Art -- Philosophy.
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Art -- Philosophy. |
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9780198747758 |
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Print version: Wolterstorff, Nicholas. Art rethought. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015 9780198747758 (OCoLC)925359804 |
| ISBN |
9780191810671 (electronic book) |
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0191810673 (electronic book) |
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9780191064838 (electronic book) |
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0191064831 (electronic book) |
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9780198747758 |
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0198747756 |
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