Defining art, creating the canon : artistic value in an era of doubt - Crowther, Paul. (Oxford : Clarendon Press ; Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007)
Introduction : normative aesthetics and artistic value -- Culture and artistic value -- Cultural exclusion and the definition of art -- Defining art, defending the canon, contesting culture -- The aesthetic and the artistic -- From beauty to art : developing Kant's aesthetics -- The scope and value of the artistic image -- Distinctive modes of imaging -- Twofoldness : pictorial art and the imagination -- Between language and perception : literary metaphor -- Musical meaning and value -- Eternalizing the moment : artistic projections of time -- Conclusion : the status and future of art.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-254) and index.
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