The truth about art: reclaiming quality

This book traces the multiple meanings of art back to their historical roots, and equips the reader to choose between them. Art with a capital A turns out to be an invention of German Romantic philosophers, who endowed their creation with the attributes of genius, originality, rule breaking, and sel...

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1. Verfasser: Doorly, Patrick (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Winchester [u.a.] Zero Books 2013
Ausgabe:1. publ.
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Zusammenfassung:This book traces the multiple meanings of art back to their historical roots, and equips the reader to choose between them. Art with a capital A turns out to be an invention of German Romantic philosophers, who endowed their creation with the attributes of genius, originality, rule breaking, and self-expression, directed by the spirit of the age. Recovering the problems that these attributes were devised to solve dispels many of the obscurities and contradictions that accompany them. What artists have always sought is excellence, and they become artists in so far as they achieve it. Quality was the supreme value in Renaissance Italy, and in early Greece it offered mortals glimpses of the divine. Today art historians avoid references to beauty or Quality, since neither is objective or definable, the boundaries beyond which scholars dare not roam. In reality subject and object are united and dissolved in the Quality event, which forms the bow wave of culture, leaving patterns of value and meaning in its wake. - Publisher
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographic references and index
Mystery -- Aesthetics -- Genius -- Virtue -- Sublime -- Romanticism -- Transcendental art -- The metaphysics of quality -- Canons of art -- Anti-art -- The truth about art
Beschreibung:XI, 208 S. zahlr. Ill., graph. Darst. 26 cm
ISBN:9781780998411

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