An Introduction to the Philosophy of Art

Individual formor what some have called the organic unity of the elements of a single work is closer to being a distinctive mark ...

successful work of art invites and sustains“absorption in form and quality, a giving-in to their force.”^38 It is not, however, ...

whole thoughts, attending to the function of a word in expressing the thought, not centrally to single word after single word. A ...

we may take“legitimate satisfactions”^47 in the“superior organization– perceptual, emotional, constructive”^48 that a painting c ...

Criticisms of formalist-aesthetic theories of art Despite (or because of) their intuitive plausibility and appeal, aesthetic the ...

Danto has gone on to survey an important turn away from beauty as pleasing surface arrangement in connection with the developmen ...

possess the surface design of Picasso’s, but some of which are molded into variously jagged or rolling bas-reliefs–then we would ...

from natural things or mere artifacts in order to define the appropriate kind of response. Hence we could not use that kind of r ...

standardly to attend tohowrepresentational and expressive features are embodied in the formal arrangement. Is the arrangement–in ...

contrast, to some extent solicited and sustained by how just this formal arrangement presents its subject matter, then and only ...

experience is characterized by“not absence of desire and thought but their thorough incorporation into perceptual experience.”^7 ...

separable from success in either artistic representation or artistic expression. The achievement of formal success involves both ...

4 Expression Feelings about subject matters in life: Wordsworth, Tolstoy, and Collingwood Against the idea that works of art pre ...

was to choose incidents and situations from common life, and to relate or describe them, throughout, as far as was possible in a ...

idealism against Sancho Panza’s common sense, when Van Gogh paints walking shoes strewn on the floor, when Anthony Caro presents ...

situation, object, experience, or feeling is affiliated with further possible subject matters and routes of feeling.^8 Here the ...

expressed in words, so to transmit that feeling that others may experience the same feeling–this is the activity of art. Art is ...

when we engage with it properly as expression. The proper experience of art “arises from within; it is not a specific reaction t ...

In contrast, serious art is not a matter of amusement, spectacle, and increasing doses of narcotic. It engages with ordinary lif ...

What is expressed in art? Hegel versus Danto G. W. F. Hegel argues that a central task of art is the expression of the spirit an ...