 
Art as Performance
ISBN: 978-1-4051-4364-6
Adobe E-Book
296 pages
April 2008, Wiley-Blackwell
US $91.95
 Purchase This E-Book
This price is valid for United States. Change location to view local pricing and availability. Other Available Formats: Hardcover
|
In this richly argued and provocative book, David Davies elaborates and defends a broad conceptual framework for thinking about the arts that reveals important continuities and discontinuities between traditional and modern art, and between different artistic disciplines.
* Elaborates and defends a broad conceptual framework for thinking about the arts.
* Offers a provocative view about the kinds of things that artworks are and how they are to be understood.
* Reveals important continuities and discontinuities between traditional and modern art.
* Highlights core topics in aesthetics and art theory, including traditional theories about the nature of art, aesthetic appreciation, artistic intentions, performance, and artistic meaning.
* Elaborates and defends a broad conceptual framework for thinking about the arts.
* Offers a provocative view about the kinds of things that artworks are and how they are to be understood.
* Reveals important continuities and discontinuities between traditional and modern art.
* Highlights core topics in aesthetics and art theory, including traditional theories about the nature of art, aesthetic appreciation, artistic intentions, performance, and artistic meaning.
