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1 online resource (88 pages). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Brill research perspectives. Art and law
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Brill research perspectives. Art and law.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 83-88). |
| Summary |
"'What is art?' is one of the classic questions that philosophy has addressed over the ages, from the ancients to today. Taking as its starting point debates over the various definitions of art found in history, this article presents and discusses some of the major theories offered by both the analytic and continental traditions. It then looks at the theoretical reasons that led twentieth-century philosophy to reopen the question of definition, and in many cases inquire into the ontology of art itself. Finally, a series of considerations are addressed to help shift the problem of definition onto a new plane, one that is able to respond to the challenges of the performing and participatory arts, which more than any other form of art present particularly unconventional ontologies."--Page 4 of cover |
| Contents |
Abstract -- Keywords -- 1. Problem of Definition: Classical Questions -- 1.1. Problem of Definition: Questions of Contemporary Art -- 1.1.1. "Does it look like a bird to you?" Art as Mimesis of the Real World -- 2. Metaphysical Issues: The Transfiguration of a Box -- 2.1. More Metaphysical Issues: Intermittent Art -- 2.2. Other Metaphysical Puzzles -- 2.3. Issues in Question -- 3. Theories -- 3.1. Essentialism, Version One: The Transcendentalist Approach -- 3.1.1. Georg Wilhelm Hegel: Art as Incorporation of Spirit -- 3.1.2. Friedrich Nietzsche: Art as Metaphysical Condition -- 3.1.3. Martin Heidegger: Truth in Art -- 3.2. Essentialism, Version Two: What Art Is -- 3.2.1. Imitation and Representation -- 3.2.2. Works and Mere Things -- 3.2.3. Decline of Beauty and the End of Art -- 3.3. Institutional Theory: Art as Stipulation -- 3.4. Historical-Contextual Approach -- 4. What a Work of Art Is -- 4.1. As Concerns Necessary Conditions -- 4.2. Standard Conditions and Their Variations. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Arts -- Philosophy.
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Arts -- Philosophy. |
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PHILOSOPHY -- Metaphysics. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Andina, Tiziana. What is art? Leiden : Brill, [2017] 9004361413 (DLC) 2017958099 (OCoLC)1007036694 |
| ISBN |
9789004361423 electronic book |
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9004361421 electronic book |
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9789004361416 |
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9004361413 |
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