The Routledge Companion to the Philosophies of Painting and Sculpture

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Comprising 45 chapters, written especially for this volume by an international team of leading experts, The Routledge Companion to the Philosophies of Painting and Sculpture is the first handbook of its kind. The editors have organized the chapters across eight broader sections: Artforms History Questions of form, style, and address Art and science Comparisons among the arts Questions of value Philosophers of art Institutional questions Individual topics include art and cognitive science, evolutionary origins of art, art and perception, pictorial realism, artistic taste, style, issues of race and gender, art and religion, art and philosophy, and the end of art. The work of selected philosophers is also discussed, including Diderot, Hegel, Ruskin, Gombrich, Goodman, Wollheim, and Danto. With an introduction from the editors and comprehensively indexed, The Routledge Companion to the Philosophies of Painting and Sculpture serves as a point of entry to the subject for a broad range of students as well as an up-to-date reference for scholars in the field. Cover Half Title Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents Notes on Contributors Introduction Part I: Artforms 1 Philosophical Approaches to Painting 2 Sculpture 3 Printmaking: Impressions, Editions, and Reproductions 4 Erotic Art and the Nude 5 On Regarding Digital Art 6 Performance Art 7 You Had to Be There: Installation as Art Form and Argument Part II: History 8 Antiquity 9 Ideas of Art in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance 10 What Was Fine Art? Painting and Sculpture Before and After the Reign of the Fine Arts 11 Early Modern European Philosophy of Painting and Sculpture 12 An Art History Made for and by Artists 13 End of Art and the Plastic Arts 14 The Avant-Garde Part III: Questions of Form, Style, and Address 15 Style 16 Pictorial Organization 17 Realism 18 Functional Art Part IV: Art and Science 19 Evolution and the Fine Arts 20 Cognitive Psychology Part V: Comparisons among the Arts 21 Fine Arts of Display: Photography, Painting, Drawing 22 Philosophy of Photography Naturalized 23 Painting and Sculpture in Their Relation to Architecture 24 Painting and Theater 25 Painterly Aspirations in Poetry 26 Painting and Comics 27 The Medium (Re)viewed: Returning to an Excursus on Painting, Film, and Photography 28 Theater Dance as a Complex Artform Part VI: Questions of Value 29 Religion 30 “Art Is How We Love Ourselves Now”: Race, Fine Art, and the Dignity of Criticism 31 Philosophical Works of Art 32 Pittura: A Gendered Template for Painting 33 Truth and Truthfulness in Painting Part VII: Philosophers of Art 34 Diderot 35 Hegel on Sculpture and Painting 36 John Ruskin on Painting and Sculpture 37 Nelson Goodman’s Theory of Expression and Exemplification: Problems and Halting Solutions 38 E. H. Gombrich 39 Richard Wollheim 40 Arthur Danto Part VIII: Institutional Questions 41 Forgery and Authenticity 42 Museum as Mirror: The Art Museum as Cultural Mirror 43 Conservation and Restoration 44 Space Is Place: Why the Placement of Sculpture Matters 45 Taste for Painting and Sculpture Index