The Space That Separates: A Realist Theory of Art

ISBN-13: 9781138912083 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 246 str.

Nick Wilson

Opis

Re-enchanting Art argues that we have lost touch with the true nature of art as a universal human practice, and that a critical realist aesthetics can play a vital role in enabling us to re-discover it. The book challenges our preconceptions of what art is, what art does, and who is doing art. Through applying the key principles and concepts of the under-labouring philosophy of critical realism in all its phases (original, dialectical and meta- realism), Re-enchanting Art provides an innovative and much needed space for 'thinking being', helping us to re-conceptualise what art 'means' in the process. More than this, it also encourages us to pursue the deeper meta-theoretical project of 'being being', such that we don't just settle with a new understanding of art, but we become art(ful) on an everyday basis. The starting point for the book's argument is that existing mainstream approaches to art and aesthetics, all too often built as they are upon irrealist assumptions, have given rise to the exclusionary ghettoization of art practice(s), holding them apart from the everyday and everywhere interests and needs of human beings in our time. In short, we have succumbed to the modernist and market-driven misconception that 'art is what artists do'. Offering a new theoretical perspective on art and synthesis of many existing and diverse positions and theories, this book will be of interest to undergraduate and postgraduate students, as well as scholars, of art, philosophy and more specifically, Critical Realism.

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Part I: Foundations: Critical Realism and Experience  1. Introduction – A Realist Theory of Art  2. Critical Realism – In 21 Steps  3. Experience – A Depth Ontology  Part II: Developments: Realising Aesthetic Experience  4. Aesthetic Experience – Being-In-Relation   5. Axiological Experience – Value(s)  6. Metaxological Experience – Between  7. Cultural Experience – Value Recognition  Part III: Deepenings: Art and Aesthetic Critical Realism  8. Alethic Experience – Truth  9. Constellational Experience – Beauty  10. Living Artfully in The Space That Separates – Good

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Nick Wilson is Professor of Culture & Creativity at the Department of Culture, Media and Creative Industries (CMCI), King’s College London. Nick worked as a professional singer, and then in arts management, before joining the Small Business Research Centre, Kingston University, in 2000, and King’s College London in 2009. His current research embraces aesthetic critical realism, art and cultural development, creativity and cultural opportunities, and the historical performance of music.