Kathleen K. Desmond

Ideas About Art (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Ideas About Art is an intelligent, accessible introductory text for students interested in learning how to think about aesthetics. It uses stories drawn from the experiences of individuals involved in the arts as a means of exposing readers to the philosophies, theories, and arguments that shape and drive visual art. * An accessible, story-driven introduction to aesthetic theory and philosophy * Prompts readers to develop independent ideas about aesthetics; this is a guide on how to think, not what to think * Includes discussions of non-western, contemporary, and discipline-specific theories * Examines a range of art-based dilemmas across a wide variety of disciplines - from art and design and law to visual and museum studies

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. März 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781444395990
• Artikelnr.: 38306672

Autorenporträt

KATHLEEN K. DESMOND is Professor of Art & Design and Byler Distinguished Faculty at the University of Central Missouri. An award-winning teacher and scholar, Desmond teaches art appreciation, aesthetics, art criticism, and art theory. Her articles about contemporary art and artists and college art learning are published in Art Journal, Art Education, Aesthetics On-line, Review, Dialogue, and New Art Examiner. Past Chair of the College Art Association's Education Committee, Desmond conducted conference sessions that yielded data supporting this text.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations ix
Preface x
Acknowledgements xxii
1 Public Opinion/Public Art 1
I Don't Know Anything About Art, But I Know What I Like!
2 Non-Western Ideas About What Art Is 15
Is Art Situational? Cultural? Biological? Universal?
3 Western Ideas About What Art Is 33
4 Beauty 52
Does Art Have to be Beautiful?
5 Expression and Aesthetic Experience 67
6 Art and Ethics 78
Morals and Religion
7 Political Art, Censorship, and Pornography 93
When Art Is Too Powerful, Cover It Up
8 Art and Economics 111
9 Feminist Art, Aesthetics, and Art Criticism 123
Where Were the Women in My Art History Books?
10 Postmodernist Art and Attitudes 142
11 Photography and New Media 156
12 (Re)Discovering Design 171
13 Art and Aesthetic Education 190
14 Artists, Art Critics, Art Historians, Curators, Museums, and Viewers 205
Making Art Ideas Your Own
Bibliography 224
Illustration Credits 239
Index 241

Rezensionen

"This book will engage the serious reader of art theorywith accessible language and interesting imagery andpersonal." (SchoolArts, 1 May 2014)

"This book provides many refreshingly-new ideas about artfrom many people and areas of the world, as well as open-ended,non-dogmatic discussions on many topics." (BizIndia, 10 December 2012)

"This text offers art-interested students and general readers asampling of ideas on a wide range of topics, in an accessible,non-intimidating manner." (Book News, 1 August 2011)

"This book will engage the serious reader of art theory withaccessible language and interesting imagery and personalstories."
(SchoolArts, 1 May 2014)