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The Critical Imagination
James Grant
208 pages
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216x138mm
978-0-19-966179-4
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Hardback
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11 April 2013
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- A new theory of metaphor
- A brand new theory of art criticism
- Illuminates the ways in which we experience and appreciate art, from paintings and literature to film and music
- Written with clarity and precision
The Critical Imagination is a study of metaphor, imaginativeness, and criticism of the arts. Since the eighteenth century, many philosophers have argued that appreciating art is rewarding because it involves responding imaginatively to a work. Literary works can be interpreted in many ways; architecture can be seen as stately, meditative, or forbidding; and sensitive descriptions of art are often colourful metaphors: music can 'shimmer', prose can be 'perfumed', and a painter's colouring can be 'effervescent'. Engaging with art, like creating it, seems to offer great scope for imagination. Hume, Kant, Oscar Wilde, Roger Scruton, and others have defended variations on this attractive
idea. In this book, James Grant critically examines it.
The first half explains the role imaginativeness plays in criticism. To do this, Grant answers three questions that are of interest in their own right. First, what are the aims of criticism? Is the point of criticizing a work to evaluate it, to explain it, to modify our response to it, or something else? Second, what is it to appreciate art? Third, what is imaginativeness? He gives new answers to all three questions, and uses them to explain the role of imaginativeness in criticism.
The book's second half focuses on metaphor. Why are some metaphors so effective? How do we understand metaphors? Are some thoughts expressible only in metaphor? Grant's answers to these questions go against much current thinking
in the philosophy of language. He uses these answers to explain why imaginative metaphors are so common in art criticism. The result is a rigorous and original theory of metaphor, criticism, imaginativeness, and their interrelations.Readership: Scholars and advanced students in philosophy of art, philosophy of language, and aesthetics.
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James Grant, Birkbeck College, University of London James Grant is a Lecturer in Philosophy at Birkbeck, University of London.
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Introduction
1: The Aims of Criticism
2: Criticism and Appreciation
3: Criticism and Imagination
4: Metaphor and Likeness
5: The Dispensability of Metaphor
6: Metaphor and Criticism
Conclusion
Bibliography
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