Opening gambits
Subtitle: essays on art and philosophy
By: Mark Kingwell
Publisher: Key Porter Books
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Toronto, Ont
Language: eng
Number of pages: 295
ISBN-13: 9781554700738
Copyright date: 2008
Subjects: Art and philosophy; Aesthetics
Description: "In Opening Gambits, cultural critic and philosopher Mark Kingwell puts forth an argument for the similarity between art and philosophy as forms of play, working at the margins of meaning and sense. Featuring essays previously published in Queen's Quarterly, Descant, Harvard Design Magazine, Canadian Art, and Harper's, the book begins with general assessments of the art world and the relationship between art and architecture. Including lively critical engagements with artists such as Edward Burtynsky, David Bierk, James Lahey, and Blue Republic, these pieces draw out the philosophical issues embedded in the aesthetic experience of art. In the second half of the collection, Kingwell reverses the polarity, investigating philosophy as a kind of art form that is constantly questioning its own possibility."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction.; title: Puzzles and Plays: Philosophy as/and/of Art --  -- Pt. 1.; title: Art and Its Objects --  -- 1.; title: Art Will Eat Itself --  -- 2.; title: Monumental Conceptual Architecture --  -- 3.; title: Modernism a la Mode --  -- 4.; title: Earth and World in James Lahey's Index Abstractions --  -- 5.; title: David Bierk and Appropriate Beauty --  -- 6.; title: The Truth in Photographs: Edward Burtynsky's Revelations of Excess --  -- 7.; title: Unlearned: Losing Your Way, Finding Yourself --  -- 8.; title: Imaging the Artist + The Legacies of Joseph Wagenbach --  -- 9.; title: Five Stops: Homesick and Wanting in the Blue Republic --  -- Pt. 2.; title: Philosophy After Art --  -- 10.; title: Love and Philosophy --  -- 11.; title: Anguish as a Second Language --  -- 12.; title: Crayon in the Brain: Machining Happiness in the Time of Homer --  -- 13.; title: Let's Ask Again: Is Law Like Literature? --  -- 14.; title: The Theory Theory; or, The Fashion System Revisited.