A Theory of Art
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc
Published:16th Dec '99
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This philosophical theory of art, addressed to anyone with a serious interest in the arts, has three main objectives: to shift the focus of aesthetics from the question "What is art?" to the question "What is art for?"; to describe the social and historical situation of art today; and to combine aesthetics with poetics and hermeneutics. A distinctive feature of the book is its argument that music exemplifies the current condition of art in a particularly revealing fashion.
Berger writes well, is suggestive and in places, particularly in relation to music and the nature of poetic forms, genuinely illuminating. As a book for generally interested non-specialists it is genuinely engaging and worth reading * MIND *
What is distinctive is the combination of aesthetics with poetics and hermeneutics and conceiving of music as the key to understanding the situation in the contemporary arts * MIND *
ISBN: 9780195128604
Dimensions: 236mm x 160mm x 31mm
Weight: 590g
304 pages