An Introduction to the Philosophy of Art

has been done intentionally and attentivelywithinitiating motives–“not something else, such as the composer, performer, or liste ...

choreographers, novelists, poets and so on can reflectively attend to andwork withemotional states asshown(in any of these sense ...

InWhat is Art?, Tolstoy suggests that it is the communicative or transmis- sive dimension of artistic expression that in the fir ...

between Hegel and Danto on what is expressed and to a more plausible account of why artistic expression matters for us. Human li ...

our emotions and attitudes toward the affairs of life more actively into the forefront of consciousness. The majesty of these re ...

include as well nature as a scene of human habitation (or its frustration), natural objects as fit for the human eye (or repelle ...

nonetheless, their material came from the public world and so has qualities in common with the material of other experiences, wh ...

5 Originality and imagination Genius and the pursuit of the new: Kant In presenting a subject matter as a focus for thought and ...

conceptual elements evident in Greek thought, particularly in Plato, that were then modified through the establishment of Christ ...

energy.^7 When this creative energy as a gift of nature surges forth, then the result is a moment of inspiration, an epiphany, o ...

provide richmaterialfor products of art; its elaboration andformrequire a talent that has been academically trained, in order to ...

mundane to us; we [also] transform [merely given] nature...in accordance with principles that lie higher in reason...in this we ...

training in artistic making that can never be reduced to recipe or rote. Instead, models must be put before the novice, practice ...

mythological ideas, the content and thought of their works of art, were still indeterminate, or determined badly, and so did not ...

creative making of centrally successful art must take up and express what people in a culture most deeply care about, the task o ...

perhaps chanting and remembering the deeds of ancestors–is centrally part of the sustaining of life in tribal communities. These ...

independently of other psychological, social, economic, utilitarian, and so forth motives. Works of art that have decorative, li ...

genre is not sufficient for distinctively successful art. Mere formula must be worked through and overcome: in Pound’s phrase, t ...

In any case–no matter how things stand with his sometime emphasis on esoteric, iconoclastic modernist works as exemplars of the ...

best exemplars of its solution. A wish for a perfect union of spontaneity and discipline, of sensuousness and thought, and of im ...