What Artistry Can Do Essays on Art and Beauty
12 essays on artistry, art criticism and aesthetics written over a 30-year period Approaches established problems of aesthetics and art criticism from oblique and unexpected angles, such as laughter and mockery, the artist’s ‘first artwork’, art as playing hide-and-seek, and caricature Offers an ori...
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Edinburgh
Edinburgh University Press
2022, ©2022
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| Collection: | DeGruyter MPG Collection - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Half-title page
- Refractions series
- Title page
- Copyright Information
- Contents
- Figures
- Series Editor's Preface
- Preface by John MacArthur
- Introduction
- Part I: Art as a Form of Understanding
- 1. First Ideas on Art, Being Moved and Criticism
- 2. Critical?Art
- 3. What Art Can Do ('Malpertuis' by Jean Ray)
- 4. On the Pleasure of Finding What Is Hidden ('With Hidden Noise' by Marcel Duchamp)
- 5. Memoria: Memory Work and the 'Conversation of Mankind'
- Part II: Aspects of Artistry
- 6. On Laughter, Opinions and Artistic Freedom
- 7. Notes on the Work of Art as a Gift
- 8. 'Being an Artist Is an Art in Itself': On the 'First Work' and the Notionof 'Oeuvre'
- 9. Double-Speak
- Part III: Elementary Aesthetics
- 10. On Splendour and Modern Beauty
- 11. Fatal Truths: Notes on the Beauty Experience
- 12. On the Aesthetic Gaze, Beautyand the Two Sources of Ugliness
- First Publication
- Notes
- Index