Philosophy and the Arts

This volume contains notable essays on philosophy and the arts based on the Royal Institute of Philosophy lecture series.

In this volume distinguished aestheticians consider the ways in which painting, sculpture, music, poetry and the cinema approach their subject matter and add to our aesthetic understanding. The volume contains discussions of artistic value, truth, performance and fakes which will be of interest both to aestheticians and philosophers more generally.In this volume a group of distinguished aestheticians consider the distinctive ways painting, sculpture, music, poetry and the cinema approach their subject matter and add to our aesthetic understanding. In addition these are discussions of artistic value and artistic truth, of the value of performance and of the problem of fakes, all of which contribute to a volume which will be of interest both to aestheticians and philosophers more generally.