Aesthetics and painting
By: Jason Gaiger.
Publisher: Continuum
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 179
ISBN-13: 9780826485205; 9780826485212
Subjects: Painting -- Philosophy; Aesthetics
Description: Aesthetics and Painting introduces and opens up current debates and ideas in the aesthetics of painting. At the book's center is an investigation of the complex relationship between what a painting depicts and the means by which it is depicted. The book looks at: how and why painting may be distinguished from other art forms; the relationship between the painted surface and the depicted subject; the "rules of representation" specific to painting; abstract art and nonrepresentational painting; the most recent technological and aesthetic developments and their implications; the role of the artist-and that of the spectator. A sophisticated treatment of major ideas in art and philosophy, Aesthetics and Painting remains highly readable throughout, offering a clear and coherent account of the nature of painting as an art form
Table of contents: title: Painting and philosophy; title: A window onto the world; title: Surface and subject; title: Resemblance and denotation; title: Pictorial style; title: Modernism and the avant-garde.