An Introduction to the Philosophy of Art

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 ...

Making and attending to art take place, however, under what Dewey calls the condition of“the incoherence of our [modern] civiliz ...

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