Explanation and value in the arts / editors, Salim Kemal, Ivan Gaskell
1993, 1st edition. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #424138
ISBN: 0511659490
Contents; Interests, values, and explanations -- Fiction and reality in painting -- Franz Kafka : the necessity for a philosophical interpretation of his work -- On relocating ethical criticism -- Explanation and value : what makes the visual arts so different, so appealing? -- Is art history? -- Objectivity and valuation in contemporary art history -- Fullness and parsimony -- Principles of a sociology of cultural works -- Althusser and ideological criticism of the arts -- Film, rhetoric, and ideology. Subjects; Aesthetics. Values. Arts Philosophy. Art -- Philosophy. Literature Philosophy. Aesthetics Philosophy. Aesthetics, Modern 20th century. Criticism. Art History. Art criticism.
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