Philosophies of Art and Beauty
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"This is a book of great verve and great sweep. The authors... ask and answer the big, simple questions. Any reader interested in art will be hooked immediately." -- Seamus Heaney Book Description
As a historical and systematic survey of philosophies of the arts, this book provides descriptive analyses of the most significant and influential art forms which help to define European culture, past and present: literature, drama, music, architecture, sculpture and painting. They are considered in relation to theories of art, aesthetic theories and poetics, which have emerged from the human need to reflect upon the arts in order to discover their nature, value and social and cultural roles.
Philosophies of Art and Beauty offers a history of European philosophical systems and aesthetic and poetic theories together with explanatory descriptions of the major Western arts, both in their current forms and as they have developed from their beginning to the present. Philosophies of Art and Beauty
Philosophies of Art and Beauty,Hugh Bredin,Liberato Santoro-Brienza,Edinburgh University Press,0748611916,Aesthetics,Aesthetics, European,Arts, European,General,Philosophy
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