The Aesthetics of Enchantment in the Fine Arts
Title | The Aesthetics of Enchantment in the Fine Arts PDF eBook |
Author | M. Kronegger |
Publisher | Springer Science & Business Media |
Pages | 342 |
Release | 2013-03-14 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9401732345 |
Let us revive the true sense of fine arts: enchantment! In the conceptualised, commercialised, artificial approach to fine arts, we forgot its authentic experiential sense. It lies at the imaginative heart of all arts there to be retrieved by the creative recipient as the very 'truth of it all'.
The Enchantment of Art
Title | The Enchantment of Art PDF eBook |
Author | Duncan Phillips |
Publisher | |
Pages | 320 |
Release | 1927 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN |
Re-Enchantment
Title | Re-Enchantment PDF eBook |
Author | James Elkins |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 332 |
Release | 2011-01-13 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 1135902321 |
This volume includes an introduction and two final, synoptic essays, as well as contributions from some of the most prominent thinkers on religion and art including Thierry De Duve, Georges Didi-Huberman, Gerhard Wolff, Jack Caputo and Jean-Luc Marion.
Images of Enchantment
Title | Images of Enchantment PDF eBook |
Author | Sherifa Zuhur |
Publisher | American Univ in Cairo Press |
Pages | 348 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9789774244674 |
This original and multidimensional book brings a refreshing new approach to the study of the arts of the Middle East. By dealing in one volume with dance, music, painting, and cinema, as experienced and practiced not only within the Middle East but also abroad, Images of Enchantment breaks down the artificial distinctions--of form, geography, 'high' and 'low' art, performer and artist--that are so often used to delineate the subjects and processes of Middle Eastern artistic culture. The eighteen essays in this book cover themes as diverse as Bedouin dance, the music of Arab Americans, cinema in Egypt and Iran, Hollywood representations of the Middle East, and contemporary Sudanese painting. The contributions come from scholars and critics and from the artists themselves. Together, they present a wide-ranging and holistic view of the arts in their social, political, anthropological, and gender contexts. Contributors: Walter Armbrust, Farida Ben Lyazid, Kay Hardy Campbell, Virginia Danielson, Marjorie Franken, Sondra Hale, Carolee Kent, Hamid Naficy, Salwa Mikdadi Nashashibi, Anne K. Rasmussen, Selim Sednaoui, Simon Shaheen, Rebecca Stone, Chaïbia Talal, Karin Van Nieuwkerk, William Young, Sherifa Zuhur.
Beyond Aesthetics
Title | Beyond Aesthetics PDF eBook |
Author | Christopher Pinney |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 296 |
Release | 2020-05-25 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1000184129 |
The anthropology of art is currently at a crossroads. Although well versed in the meaning of art in small-scale tribal societies, anthropologists are still wrestling with the question of how to interpret art in a complex, post-colonial environment. Alfred Gell recently confronted this problem in his posthumous book Art and Agency. The central thesis of his study was that art objects could be seen, not as bearers of meaning or aesthetic value, but as forms mediating social action. At a stroke, Gell provocatively dismissed many longstanding but tired questions of definition and issues of aesthetic value. His book proposed a novel perspective on the roles of art in political practice and made fresh links between analyses of style, tradition and society. Offering a new overview of the anthropology of art, this book begins where Gell left off. Presenting wide-ranging critiques of the limits of aesthetic interpretation, the workings of objects in practice, the relations between meaning and efficacy and the politics of postcolonial art, its distinguished contributors both elaborate on and dissent from the controversies of Gells important text. Subjects covered include music and the internet as well as ethnographic traditions and contemporary indigenous art. Geographically its case studies range from India to Oceania to North America and Europe.
Divining Nature
Title | Divining Nature PDF eBook |
Author | Tili Boon Cuillé |
Publisher | |
Pages | 320 |
Release | 2020 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781503613362 |
"Divining Nature traces the philosophical, aesthetic, and affective responses to the "spectacle of nature" across the arts and sciences in eighteenth-century France to uncover the preservation and proliferation of wonder in the age of reason"--
The Re-enchantment of the World
Title | The Re-enchantment of the World PDF eBook |
Author | Gordon Graham |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 210 |
Release | 2007-11 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 0199265968 |
This is a philosophical exploration of the role of art and religion as sources of meaning in an increasingly material world dominated by science. Relating themes in the history of European philosophy to topics in contemporary philosophy, Gordon Graham investigates the idea that art has the potential to re-enchant an irreligious world.