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Explanation and Value in the Arts

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Part of Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and the Arts

Editors:
Salim Kemal
Ivan Gaskell

Salim Kemal, Ivan Gaskell, Michael Podro, Walter Biemel, Wayne C. Booth, Mark Roskill, Svetlana Alpers, Gregg Horowitz, Jon Elster, Pierre Bourdieu, Richard Eldridge, Noël Carroll

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Date Published: April 2010
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format: Paperback
isbn: 9780521429535

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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.
- European and American theorists and cultural critics contribute to a volume which questions the history and basis of our aesthetic judgements
- The study and assessment of fine art and literature are compared
- This book (and the series as a whole) applies philosophical rigour to the practice of art criticism
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- Date Published: April 2010
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521429535
- length: 256 pages
- dimensions: 228 x 152 x 15 mm
- weight: 0.38kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
List of contributors
Editor's acknowledgements
1. Interests, values and explanations Salim Kemal and Ivan Gaskell
2. Fiction and reality in painting Michael Podro
3. Franz Kafka: the necessity for a philosophical interpretation of his work Walter Biemel
4. On relocating ethical criticism Wayne C. Booth
5. Explanation and value: what makes the visual arts so different, so appealing? Mark Roskill
6. Is art history? Svetlana Alpers
7. Objectivity and valuation in contemporary art history Gregg Horowitz
8. Fullness and parsimony: notes on creativity in the arts Jon Elster
9. Principles of a sociology of cultural works Pierre Bourdieu
10. Althusser and ideological criticism of the arts Richard Eldridge
11. Film, rhetoric, and ideology Noël Carroll
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Editors
Salim Kemal
Ivan Gaskell
Contributors
Salim Kemal, Ivan Gaskell, Michael Podro, Walter Biemel, Wayne C. Booth, Mark Roskill, Svetlana Alpers, Gregg Horowitz, Jon Elster, Pierre Bourdieu, Richard Eldridge, Noël Carroll