Sophistry and Twentieth-Century Art / / Haim Gordon, Rivca Gordon.

This book deals with a rejection of the widespread fakeries that have emerged in twentieth-century art, which we call by their Platonic name, sophistry. The book also presents brief descriptions of some of the ideas of Martin Heidegger and Nicolas Berdyaev as to what constitutes a beautiful work of...

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Superior document:Value Inquiry Book Series ; 123
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden; , Boston : : BRILL,, 2002.
Year of Publication:2002
Language:English
Series:Value Inquiry Book Series ; 123.
Physical Description:1 online resource (149 pages)
Notes:Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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Table of Contents:
  • FOREWORD by Rina Shtelman
  • INTRODUCTION
  • ONE Heidegger on Truth and Art
  • TWO The Longing for Truth and Beauty
  • THREE Heidegger on Art, Truth, and Beauty
  • FOUR Sophistry in Art and Indifference
  • FIVE Berdyaev: Art and Personality
  • SIX Berdyaev's Personalism Versus Egocentricism in Art
  • SEVEN Superficiality in Twentieth-Century Art
  • EIGHT: Master, Slave, Free Person, and Art
  • NINE Art as Interesting
  • TEN Conclusion
  • NOTES
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • ABOUT THE AUTHORS
  • INDEX.