Emotion and the Arts
Mette Hjort author Sue Laver author
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc
Published:6th Nov '97
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This collection presents new essays on emotion and its relation to the arts contributed from fifteen leading aestheticians. The essays will consider such topics as the paradox of fiction, emotion in the pure and abstract arts, and the rationality and ethics of emotional responses to art. Among the contributors are such noted authors as Kendal Walton, Rom Harre, Robert Solomon, and Jerrold Levinson.
Mette Hjort and Sue Laver have put together a useful collection of essays on the relationship between art and emotion....this is an important assemblage of essays. The combination of disciplines that contribute to the varying perspectives makes it a truly interdisciplinary and controversial collection. I would highly recommend this book to anyone wishing to have an understanding of the connection between art and emotion. It is high time that such a comprehensive collection was put forth on this essential topic in aesthetics. * The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism *
ISBN: 9780195111057
Dimensions: 231mm x 155mm x 23mm
Weight: 454g
320 pages