Aesthetics
Subtitle: the big questions
By: edited by Carolyn Korsmeyer.
Contributors: Korsmeyer, Carolyn.
Series: Philosophy, the big questions
Publisher: Blackwell Publishers
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Malden, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 366
Subjects: Aesthetics.
Description: "Philosophers have considered questions raised by the nature of art, of beauty, and critical appreciation since ancient times, and the discipline of aesthetics has a long tradition that stretches from Plato to the present. Aesthetics has also been the subject of a number of theoretical challenges that investigate the conceptual frameworks customarily assumed by theories of art. This collection of essays assembles classic and contemporary texts to present the tradition of aesthetic theory and the kinds of questions and challenges that it confronts today, both from other cultural traditions and from theoretical movements such as feminism and postmodernism."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.