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Author Crowther, Paul.

Title Defining art, creating the canon : artistic value in an era of doubt / Paul Crowther
Published Oxford : Clarendon Press ; Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007

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Description 268 pages ; 24 cm
Contents Introduction : normative aesthetics and artistic value -- Pt. I. Culture and artistic value -- 1. Cultural exclusion and the definition of art -- 2. Defining art, defending the canon, contesting culture -- Pt. II. The aesthetic and the artistic -- 3. From beauty to art : developing Kant's aesthetics -- 4. The scope and value of the artistic image -- Pt. III. Distinctive modes of imaging -- 5. Twofoldness : pictorial art and the imagination -- 6. Between language and perception : literary metaphor -- 7. Musical meaning and value -- 8. Eternalizing the moment : artistic projections of time -- Conclusion : the status and future of art
Summary "What is art; why should we value it; and what allows us to say that one work is better than another?" "Traditional answers have emphasized aesthetic form. But this has been challenged by institutional definitions of art and postmodern critique. The idea of distinctively artistic value based on aesthetic criteria is at best doubted, and at worst, rejected. This book, however, champions these notions in a new way. It does so through a rethink of the mimetic definition of art on the basis of factors which traditional answers neglect, namely the conceptual link between art's aesthetic value and 'non-exhibited' epistemological and historical relations."--BOOK JACKET
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [249]-254) and index
Subject Aesthetics.
Art -- Philosophy.
LC no. 2006038894
ISBN 0199210683 (hbk. : alk. paper)
9780199210688 (hbk. : alk. paper)