What Artistry Can Do : : Essays on Art and Beauty / / Bart Verschaffel.
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 origi...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2022 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (224 p.) :; 12 colour illustrations 12 colour illustrations |
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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