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The Creation of Art Berys Gaut (University of St Andrews, Scotland)

The Creation of Art By Berys Gaut (University of St Andrews, Scotland)

The Creation of Art by Berys Gaut (University of St Andrews, Scotland)


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Although creativity has been recognized as a topic in philosophy, it has been overshadowed by investigations of the meanings and values of works of art. In this collection of essays a distinguished roster of philosophers of art redress this trend.

The Creation of Art Summary

The Creation of Art: New Essays in Philosophical Aesthetics by Berys Gaut (University of St Andrews, Scotland)

Although creativity, from Plato onwards, has been recognized as a topic in philosophy, it has been overshadowed by investigations of the meanings and values of works of art. In this collection of essays a distinguished roster of philosophers of art redress this trend. The subjects discussed include the nature of creativity and the process of artistic creation; the role that creative making should play in our understanding and evaluation of art; relations between concepts of creation and creativity; and ideas of tradition, metaphor, genius, imagination and genre. This is an important collection that will be eagerly sought by philosophers of art as well as theorists in art history, cinema studies and literary criticism.

The Creation of Art Reviews

'... an important contribution to current research in the philosophy of art. It fills a large and regrettable gap.' Dominic Lopes, University of British Columbia
'There is plenty here to help us begin to understand what it was we acquired fifty thousand years ago. That is to say, this book will not answer all your questions about creativity, and that is its virtue.' The Philosophical Quarterly

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements; Introduction: the creation of art: issues and perspectives Berys Gaut and Paisley Livingston; 1. How to create a fictional character Peter Lamarque; 2. Drawings as drawn: an approach to creation in an art Patrick Maynard; 3. Pentimento Paisley Livingston; 4. Exemplary originality: genius, universality and individuality Paul Guyer; 5. The inexplicable: some thoughts after Kant Ted Cohen; 6. Creativity and imagination Berys Gaut; 7. Explanations of creativity David Novitz; 8. Culture, convention and creativity Stein Haugom Olsen; 9. Art, creativity and tradition Noel Carroll; 10. Elster on artistic creativity Jerrold Levinson; 11. The transfiguration of classical Hollywood norms: on Von Sternberg's last films with Dietrich George Wilson; List of contributors; Index.

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NPB9780521812344
9780521812344
0521812348
The Creation of Art: New Essays in Philosophical Aesthetics by Berys Gaut (University of St Andrews, Scotland)
New
Hardback
Cambridge University Press
2003-03-17
304
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