The Art 3 Idea
Subtitle: A Third Way to Study Art
Publisher: Cyrano Publishing
Published: July 1, 2000
Place of publication: State College, Pennsylvania
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 116
ISBN-13: 9780787271985
Subjects: ART_RECEPTION_AND_CRITICISM; Art; Art / Reception; Art criticism; Study and teaching
First sentence: Empedocles’ system of four humors serves to introduce art’s style of bodily thinking. The term “parasite” sums up art’s relationship to life, as well as its habit of creating things side by side.
Description: The Art3 Idea is about the various ways the arts are received, comprehended, and preserved by audiences of all cultures and time periods. It includes analogies drawn from classical sources, psychology, cinema, anthropology, architecture, and many other arts. The idea is that, while the various arts and various audiences are distinctive and in some sense unique, the "contract" that binds artists to audiences is written in a universal language. We cannot read or write this language directly, but we can study it through a variety of models and analogies. Through these, we come to understand the conditions that guarantee that art can survive changes in fashion, able to meet new audiences and new public requirements.
Table of contents: label: 1
title: why art is second rate
pagenum: 1; label: 2
title: the parasites of art; label: 3
title: representation and artifact; label: 4
title: Aretha Franklin theory of communications; label: 5
title: spatial strategies; label: 6
title: the three "times" of art; label: 7
title: the structures of the fantastic; label: 8
title: seeing in present tense; label: 9
title: cities and other displacements; label: 10
title: the mystery of 'x'; label: 11
title: masters of chiasmus