What Artistry Can Do : : Essays on Art and Beauty / / Bart Verschaffel.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Architecture and Design 2022
• VerfasserIn: Verschaffel, Bart,
• MitwirkendeR: MacArthur, John,; Vellodi, Kamini,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Refractions
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (224 p.) :; 12 colour illustrations 12 colour illustrations

12 essays on artistry, art criticism and aesthetics written over a 30-year periodApproaches established problems of aesthetics and art criticism from oblique and unexpected angles, such as laughter and mockery, the artist’s ‘first artwork’, art as playing hide-and-seek, and caricatureOffers an original and challenging discussion of the aesthetic experience and the notions of beauty and uglinessPresents complex theoretical issues and arguments in non-technical language comprehensible by non-specialistsThis collection of essays by the Belgian philosopher and theorist Bart Verschaffel addresses the meaning and relevance of art today. Written over the course of his career, they cover a rich and inventive range of topics: from laughter and the artwork as gift, to splendour and modern beauty. This is the first synoptic collection of Verschaffel’s work, with many of the essays translated into English for the first time.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Series Editor’s Preface -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part I Art as a Form of Understanding -- 1. First Ideas on Art, Being Moved and Criticism -- 2. Critical?Art -- 3. What Art Can Do (Malpertuis by Jean Ray) -- 4. On the Pleasure of Finding What Is Hidden (With Hidden Noise by Marcel Duchamp) -- 5. Memoria: Memory Work and the ‘Conversation of Mankind’ -- Part II Aspects of Artistry -- 6. On Laughter, Opinions and Artistic Freedom -- 7. Notes on the Work of Art as a Gift -- 8. Being an Artist Is an Art in Itself: On the ‘First Work’ and the Notion of ‘Oeuvre’ -- 9. Double-Speak -- Part III Elementary Aesthetics -- 10. On Splendour and Modern Beauty -- 11. Fatal Truths: Notes on the Beauty Experience -- 12. On the Aesthetic Gaze, Beauty and the Two Sources of Ugliness -- First Publication -- Notes -- Index