| Art as Performance Contributor(s): Davies, Dave (Author) |
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ISBN: 1405116668 ISBN-13: 9781405116664 Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell OUR PRICE: $168.10 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 2003 Annotation: In this wide-ranging and challenging 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 centerpiece is a novel and provocative view about the kinds of things that artworks are, with important consequences for how they are to be understood. Beginning with a lively discussion of the difficulties that audiences experience in their attempts to grasp and appreciate much modern and contemporary art, Davies continues with illuminating considerations of important and influential works from a broad range of artistic media - including painting, music, literature, film, performance, and dance - steadily mounting a bold and persuasive theory of the arts which construes artworks as performances. Replete with examples drawn from both modern and traditional art, the book highlights core topics in aesthetics and art theory, including traditional theories about the nature of art, aesthetic appreciation, artistic intentions, performance, and artistic meaning. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Aesthetics |
| Dewey: 111.85 |
| LCCN: 2003011349 |
| Series: New Directions in Aesthetics |
| Physical Information: 1.06" H x 6.16" W x 9.28" (1.21 lbs) 296 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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.
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