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Explanation and value in the arts / edited by Salim Kemal and Ivan Gaskell

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Explanation & Value in the Arts
Published
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1993.
Physical Description
1 online resource (ix, 245 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Additional Creators
Kemal, Salim and Gaskell, Ivan
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Contents
Interests, values, and explanations -- Fiction and reality in painting -- Franz Kafka : the necessity for a philosophical interpretation of his work -- On relocating ethical criticism -- Explanation and value : what makes the visual arts so different, so appealing? -- Is art history? -- Objectivity and valuation in contemporary art history -- Fullness and parsimony -- Principles of a sociology of cultural works -- Althusser and ideological criticism of the arts -- Film, rhetoric, and ideology.
Summary
Explanation and Value in the Arts offers penetrating studies by art historians, literary theorists and philosophers, of issues central to explaining works of literature and painting. The first chapters look at the sources of interest in the fine arts and point to the intimate relation between aesthetic and other values. The following contributions develop the interaction between value and explanation by examining the construction of value in the study of the arts, including considerations of the nature of creativity and the principles for the explanations of works. A final section takes up questions of the role of ideology and the determining role of power.
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ISBN
9780511659492 (ebook)
9780521419260 (hardback)
9780521429535 (paperback)
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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