Art's Emotions
Subtitle: Ethics, Expression, and Aesthetic Experience
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Published: Feb 02, 2012
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780773540057
Description: Art's Emotions is a reflective, thought-provoking exploration of the significance that experiencing emotion through art has upon our lives. Damien Freeman reviews and evaluates three traditional approaches to understanding artistic expression and moves on to develop a new theory of emotion that resolves key questions in aesthetics. In a novel philosophical project, Freeman also establishes the ethical importance of art in nurturing humans and helping them flourish. --amazon.com.
Notes: Source title: Art's Emotions: Ethics, Expression, and Aesthetic Experience