Art and Enchantment: How Wonder Works

ISBN-13: 9781032404677 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 280 str.

UK) Curry Patrick (University of Wales Trinity St David

Opis

Offering studies of painting, music, fiction and poetry, this book considers the experience of enchantment in art, drawing on the thought of philosophers, artists and sociological theorists to understand the complex relationship between wonder in art and the programmatic disenchantment to which it is often subject.

O autorze

Patrick Curry is a tutor in the School of Environment, Archaeology, History and Anthropology at the University of Wales Trinity St David, UK. He is the author of Ecological Ethics: An Introduction and Enchantment: Wonder in Modern Life, and the editor of Divination: Perspectives for a New Millennium. He is also editor-in-chief of the online journal The Ecological Citizen.