An Introduction to the Philosophy of Art

woman by Hollywood, by society, by disease, by systems of waste disposal, by, in general,“a symbolic order in crisis”^46 in bein ...

Schiller had earlier decried: art as a matter of decoration, entertainment, or escape that is–so the avant-garde argued–“unassoc ...

calls“postconceptual art”that takes up the oppositional, avant-gardist stance of conceptual art under new sociopolitical conditi ...

that the artists have“taken no risk and explored nothing.”^61 In their work, “theory has replaced the visual element in painting ...

in the art critic Dave Hickey’s enthusiasms for rock music, the neon lights of Las Vegas, the stage shows of Liberace, and the m ...

changing social actuality and to regard the making of works of art as a model of a process of free meaning-making in which we mi ...

collective life. But they are also marvelous aids in the creation of such a life. The reconciling of the material of experience ...

awe and reverence for primeval nature and to remind us of our own transi- toriness as a species in the face of it, somewhat in t ...

place between the camera and the scene itself, leaving any human audience altogether to one side. A second mode of partial resis ...

that a sectarian political interest in advancing the social possibilities of women may lead to overvaluing some works in virtue ...

definite subject matter as a focus for thought through the working of mater- ial in a medium. But the formal limits of success i ...

emotion. Minimalist and constructivist strategies are natural in an age that has grown suspicious of unambiguous pleasure. Perfo ...

“Everyday objects produced by our society may be turned into objects of desire more than one time. I am trying [in purchasing ob ...

sakes of entertainment, instruction, provocation, and commerce circulate continuously and widely through print mass media, radio ...

simultaneously, but by people alone or in fairly small groups and scattered across millions of different locations. These dissim ...

In a bleak but prescient book, Leonard Meyer argues that the collapse of “high”art into formalism and constructivism, exemplifie ...

11 Epilogue: the evidence of things not seen Throughout these chapters I have repeatedly invoked the formula that works of art p ...

present. There are a number of different kinds of pain-behavior, from the most natural and immediate (screaming and withdrawing) ...

than we had thought). Some conceptual art lacks a conspicuous and obvious expressive dimension (even if it can be argued that wi ...

Anne Sheppard has observed that works of literature (and by implication works of art in general) are like metaphors.^4 In repres ...