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A Theory of Art Karol Berger (Osgood Professor of Fine Arts, Osgood Professor of Fine Arts, Stanford University)

A Theory of Art By Karol Berger (Osgood Professor of Fine Arts, Osgood Professor of Fine Arts, Stanford University)

A Theory of Art by Karol Berger (Osgood Professor of Fine Arts, Osgood Professor of Fine Arts, Stanford University)

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The philosophical theory of art has three main objectives: to shift the focus of aesthetics from the question What is art? to the question What is art for?; to describe the social and historical situation of art; and to combine aesthetics with poetics and hermeneutics. This book offers an argument that music exemplifies the condition of art.

A Theory of Art Summary

A Theory of Art by Karol Berger (Osgood Professor of Fine Arts, Osgood Professor of Fine Arts, Stanford University)

This philosophical theory of art, addressed to anyone with a serious interest in the arts, has three main objectives: to shift the focus of aesthetics from the question What is art? to the question What is art for?; to describe the social and historical situation of art today; and to combine aesthetics with poetics and hermeneutics. A distinctive feature of the book is its argument that music exemplifies the current condition of art in a particularly revealing fashion.

A Theory of Art Reviews

Berger writes well, is suggestive and in places, particularly in relation to music and the nature of poetic forms, genuinely illuminating. As a book for generally interested non-specialists it is genuinely engaging and worth reading * MIND *
What is distinctive is the combination of aesthetics with poetics and hermeneutics and conceiving of music as the key to understanding the situation in the contemporary arts * MIND *

About Karol Berger (Osgood Professor of Fine Arts, Osgood Professor of Fine Arts, Stanford University)

Karol Berger Is Osgood Hooker Professor in Fine Arts at Stanford University. He is the author of numerous studies in the history of music aesthetics and theory, vocal pholyphony from 1400 to 1600, and instrumental music from 1780 to 1850. His Musica Ficta (1987) won the Otto Kinkeldey Award of the American Musicological Society.

Table of Contents

Prologue. The Function and value of art Part I.Aesthetics: the end of artworks 1.: Aesthetics I. The nature of art 2.: Aesthetics II. The uses of art 3.: Aesthetics III. The genealogy of modern European art music Part II.Poetics and hermeneutics: the contents and interpretation of artworks 4.: Poetics I. Diegesis and mimesis: the poetic modes and the matter of artistic presentation 5.: Poetics II. Narrative and lyric: the poetic forms and the object of artistic presentation 6.: Hermenetics. Interpretation and its validity Epilogue. The power of taste Notes

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NPB9780195128604
9780195128604
0195128605
A Theory of Art by Karol Berger (Osgood Professor of Fine Arts, Osgood Professor of Fine Arts, Stanford University)
Karol Berger (Osgood Professor of Fine Arts, Osgood Professor of Fine Arts, Stanford University)
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Hardback
Oxford University Press Inc
1999-12-16
302
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