Art as Performance (New Directions in Aesthetics): 2

by Davies (Author)

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2003
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In this richly argued and provocative book, David Davies elaborates and defends a broad conceptual framework for thinking about the arts that reveals important continuities and discontinuities between traditional and modern art, and between different artistic disciplines. The book offers a provocative view about the kinds of things that artworks are and how they are to be understood. It reveals important continuities and discontinuities between traditional and modern art. It also highlights core topics in aesthetics and art theory, including traditional theories about the nature of art, aesthetic appreciation, artistic intentions, performance, and artistic meaning.

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In this richly argued and provocative book, David Davies elaborates and defends a broad conceptual framework for thinking about the arts that reveals important continuities and discontinuities between traditional and modern art, and between different artistic disciplines. The book offers a provocative view about the kinds of things that artworks are and how they are to be understood. It reveals important continuities and discontinuities between traditional and modern art. It also highlights core topics in aesthetics and art theory, including traditional theories about the nature of art, aesthetic appreciation, artistic intentions, performance, and artistic meaning.

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 292
Edition: 1
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 19 Dec 2003
ISBN 10: 1405116668
ISBN 13: 9781405116664

Media Reviews

David Davies's Art as Performance is itself quite a performance. While agreeing with aesthetic contextualism's rejection of empiricism in aesthetics, it presents a sophisticated and ingenious critique of, and alternative to, even the most enlightened contextualism about the nature, ontology, and value of art, holding that artworks are, all of them, performances by artists, rather than objects made by artists. Davies's arguments will require, and will richly reward, the most careful attention from his fellow aestheticians. Jerrold Levinson, University of Maryland David Davies brings philosophical rigor and fine-grained analytical reasoning to live and pressing debates about the fundamental nature of art. He offers a striking and original thesis as well as an illuminating presentation of the issues. A compelling performance! Peter Lamarque, University of York

Author Bio

David Davies is Associate Professor of Philosophy at McGill University and has published widely on topics in philosophy of art, metaphysics, philosophy of language, and philosophy of mind.