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Human beings engage works of the arts in many different ways: they sing songs while working, they kiss icons, they create and dedicate memorials. Yet almost all philosophers of art of the modern period have ignored this variety and focused entirely on just one mode of engagement, namely, disinterest...
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Oxford University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Oxford : |
| Publication Dates: | 2015. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: |
Human beings engage works of the arts in many different ways: they sing songs while working, they kiss icons, they create and dedicate memorials. Yet almost all philosophers of art of the modern period have ignored this variety and focused entirely on just one mode of engagement, namely, disinterested attention. In the first part of the book Nicholas Wolterstorff asks why philosophers have concentrated on just this one mode of engagement. The answer he proposes is that almost all philosophers have accepted what the author calls the grand narrative concerning art in the modern world. It is ge |
| Item Description: | Includes index. |
| Carrier Form: | xvi, 331 pages ; 24 cm |
| ISBN: |
9780198747758 0198747756 |
| Index Number: | NX180 |
| CLC: | J0-05 |
| Call Number: | J0-05/W868 |
| Contents: | Part one : The grand narrative of art in the modern world -- The Early Modern revolution in the arts -- Why the revolution? -- The grand narrative and the grand narrative theses -- Wherein lies the worth of disinterested attention? -- Art, religion, and the grand narrative -- Part two : Why the grand narrative has to go -- The inapplicability of the grand narrative to recent art -- Why the grand narrative never was tenable -- Part three : A new framework for thinking about the arts -- The arts as social practices -- Meaning of works of the arts and of artworks -- Part four : Memorial art -- |