Philosophy of the Performing Arts

132 performance and the classical paradigm years. See, for example, McFee 2000, Carroll 2003, Sparshott 2004, and Van Camp 2009. ...

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1 Introduction: Spontaneous Performance in the Arts in the Arts On January 24, 1975, Keith Jarrett walked onto the stage of the ...

136 performance as art performance obviously involves improvisation. Indeed, it is striking in that it was not preceded by any p ...

performances as artworks 137 individual performance then, pace Osipovich, is of that production. Jarrett’s actions, however, exe ...

138 performance as art background for our detailed examination, in the following two chapters, of improvisation, rehearsal, the ...

performances as artworks 139 the appreciation of the audience in Köln, therefore, was not a work of art, but only an “aesthetic ...

140 performance as art of constructing sequences of sounds that are intended to articulate an artistic content. Thus, in each ca ...

performances as artworks 141 Furthermore, in listening to an improvised performance in this way, we disregard things that might ...

142 performance as art assessed. Here, I think, we should remind ourselves of our discussion, in Chapter 1, of the features that ...

performances as artworks 143 broad sense an artifact. On the other hand, to take an interest in something as an “object of aesth ...

144 performance as art when the evening is spread out against the sky like a patient etherized upon a table,” he is not merely q ...

performances as artworks 145 of classical works. Their ways of interpreting and performing those works articulate an artistic co ...

146 performance as art purpose of articulating an artistic content of her own – one not referable to the performable work. But t ...

performances as artworks 147 As for the second kind of property, this, in the case of a performance of a performable work, again ...

148 performance as art use Thom’s terminology, as a distinct object of aesthetic contemplation. But events meeting the requireme ...

1 Introduction Artistic performances, we have seen, play one, and sometimes both, of two roles in the appreciation of artworks. ...

150 performance as art of artistic performances. First, both improvisation and rehearsal enter into the processes whereby partic ...

performance i: improvisation and rehearsal 151 brings them into being.^1 In the previous chapter we followed most theo- rists in ...

152 performance as art Third, they argue that there is an intimate connection between improvisa- tion and interpretation. They m ...