Readership: Students and scholars of philosophy, especially aesthetics; students and scholars of the theory of art and of the history of art
Paul Crowther, Jacobs University Bremen, Germany
"Crowther's argument offers an interesting possibility for reading art as a mode of image making...The book's greatest strength may be in the opportunities it provides for future studies on how art can be thought from more open theoretical orientations as opposed to predetermined value-based systems." - Michelle Lavigne, Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism
"This book is rich and sweeping, ambitious and dense, taking its reader through a fast-paced argument which addresses and borrows from cultural criticism, transcendental idealism, phenomenology, and hermenuetics...I found Crowther's book a stimulating read. It is unusually wide in its scope, it deals with several of the central questions for philosophy of art, and it offers an occasion to think hard about the deeper commitments we have both as philosophers and as art-lovers." - Ingvild Torsen, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
Introduction: Normative Aesthetics and Artistic Value Part One: Culture and Artistic Value 1: Cultural Exclusion and the Definition of Art 2: Defining Art, Defending the Canon, Contesting Culture Part Two: The Aesthetic and the Artistic 3: From Beauty to Art; Developing Kant's Aesthetics 4: The Scope and Value of the Artistic Image Part Three: Distinctive Modes of Imaging 5: Twofoldness: Pictorial Art and the Imagination 6: Between Language and Perception: Literary Metaphor 7: Musical Meaning and Value 8: Eternalizing the Moment: Artistic Projections of Time Conclusion - The Status and Future of Art
