Aesthetics

Colin Lyas, Colin Lyas

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Routledge
28 May 1997

Philosophy: aesthetics

Series: Fundamentals of Philosophy

This book presents an up-to-date introduction to the subject that captures the excitement and passion of art itself. It opens by exploring why art is important to us and goes on to grip the reader with a discussion of all of the areas central to aesthetics: aesthetic experience, representation, expression, definition of art, evaluation, interpretation, structuralism and post-structuralism, truth and morality. It draws upon the great thinkers on art, Plato and Kant, Croce and Beardsley, including the most recent iconoclastic views from the Continent of Barthes and Derrida, and invests the whole narrative with life through traditional and topical examples taken from all types of human creativity.

By: Colin Lyas, Colin Lyas
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 138mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9781857286786
ISBN 10: 1857286782
Series: Fundamentals of Philosophy
Pages: 252
Publication Date: 28 May 1997
Audience: College/higher education , A / AS level
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Part 1 Stories: nature's mirror - imitation, representation and imagination; Anglo-Kantian attitudes; ne'er so well expressed; tales from the Vienna woods - Wittgenstein and after; after the Holocaust - Adorno's challenge and Beuys' answer. Part 2 Problems: the proof of the pudding: subjectivism confronted; the empty tomb - authors and meaning; Helen Schlegel's Beethoven - morals and truths; conclusions - the point of it all.

Dr Colin Lyas

Reviews for Aesthetics

'A rigorous discussion of the central topics in current aesthetics, which contains much that is of interest...engaging for undergraduate readers.' - Mind 'Lyas gives us a vigorous discussion of the central topics in current aesthetics.' - Mind