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Explanation and Value in the Arts

By Salim Kemal , Ivan Gaskell

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
1993
ISBN
0521419263, 9780521419260
LCC
BH39 .E96 1993
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
6 MB (6567629 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and the Arts
Pages
256\256
Topic
Art
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Explanation and Value in the Arts offers penetrating studies by art historians, literary theorists, and philosophers, of issues central to explaining works of literature and painting. The first chapters look at the sources of interest in the fine arts and point to the intimate relation between aesthetic and other values. The next contributions develop the interaction between value and explanation in the study of the arts, including considerations of the nature of creativity and the principles for the explanations of works. A final section takes up questions of the role of ideology and the determining role of power.

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