Sophistry and Twentieth-Century Art (Value Inquiry Book Series 123) (Value Inquiry Book)
Publisher: Editions Rodopi B.V.; Rodopi
Published: September 15, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 140
ISBN-13: 9789042015296
Subjects: Forgery, falsification & theft of artworks; Philosophy; Theory of art; 20th century
Description: "This book rejects the widespread fakeries that emerged in twentieth-century art, which may be called by their Platonic name of sophistry. The book applies ideas of Martin Heidegger and Nicolas Berdyaev about what constitutes a beautiful work of art and about how an authentic relation to the beauty in a work of art enhances human existence."--BOOK JACKET.