Ideas about Art

ISBN-13: 9781405178822 / Miękka / 2011 / 278 str.

Kathleen K Desmond

Opis

Ideas About Art is an intelligent, accessible introductory text for students interested in learning how to think about aesthetics. It uses stories drawn from the experiences of individuals involved in the arts as a means of exposing readers to the philosophies, theories, and arguments that shape and drive visual art.

• An accessible, story-driven introduction to aesthetic theory and philosophy
• Prompts readers to develop independent ideas about aesthetics; this is a guide on how to think, not what to think
• Includes discussions of non-western, contemporary, and discipline-specific theories
• Examines a range of art-based dilemmas across a wide variety of disciplines - from art and design and law to visual and museum studies

Recenzje

“This book will engage the serious reader of art theory with accessible language and interesting imagery and personal.”  (SchoolArts, 1 May 2014)

“This book provides many refreshingly–new ideas about art from many people and areas of the world, as well as open–ended, non–dogmatic discussions on many topics.”  (Biz India, 10 December 2012)

  "This book will engage the serious reader of art theory with accessible language and interesting imagery and personal stories."
( School Arts, 1 May 2014 )

Spis treści

Acknowledgements.

List of Illustrations.

Preface.

1. Public Opinion/Public Art.

2. Non–Western Ideas.

3. Western Ideas.

4. Beauty.

5. Expression & Aesthetic Experience.

6. Art & Ethics.

7. Political Art, Censorship & Pornography.

8. Art & Economics.

9. Feminist Art, Aesthetics & Art Criticism.

10. Postmodern Art & Attitudes.

11. Photography & New Media.

12. (Re)Discovering Design.

13. Art & Aesthetic Education.

14. Artists, Art Critics, Art Historians, Curators, Museums & Viewers.

References.

Index.

O autorze

Kathleen Desmond is Professor of Art History and Byler Distinguished Faculty at the University of Central Missouri where she teaches aesthetics, art criticism and art history and writes about contemporary art and artists.

Blurb

Ideas about Art is an engaging and inspirational text that teaches students to apply critical theory and develop and support their own opinions concerning aesthetics and art theory.  The text examines a range of art–based dilemmas, cases and instances of art in a multicultural context and across a wide variety of disciplines––from art and design and law to visual and museum studies. Organized into small chapters that begin with concrete stimuli for delving into deeper philosophical issues real and hypothetical––art′s value, taste, the creative process, censorship, and aesthetic taste and theory–– Ideas about Art includes stories from artists, art critics, art museum and art gallery professionals and philosophers, and brings art and aesthetics to life.