Art as Performance - Softcover

Davies, Dave

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1405116676 ISBN 13: 9781405116671

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 2003

Synopsis

In this richly argued and provocative book, David Davies elaborates and defends a broad conceptual framework for thinking about the arts that reveals important continuities and discontinuities between traditional and modern art, and between different artistic disciplines.

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• Elaborates and defends a broad conceptual framework for thinking about the arts.
  
• Offers a provocative view about the kinds of things that artworks are and how they are to be understood.
  
• Reveals important continuities and discontinuities between traditional and modern art.
  
• Highlights core topics in aesthetics and art theory, including traditional theories about the nature of art, aesthetic appreciation, artistic intentions, performance, and artistic meaning.

About this title

Book Description:

In this wide-ranging and challenging book, David Davies elaborates and defends a broad conceptual framework for thinking about the arts that reveals important continuities and discontinuities between traditional and modern art, and between different artistic disciplines. The centerpiece is a novel and provocative view about the kinds of things that artworks are, with important consequences for how they are to be understood.Beginning with a lively discussion of the difficulties that audiences experience in their attempts to grasp and appreciate much modern and contemporary art, Davies continues with illuminating considerations of important and influential works from a broad range of artistic media - including painting, music, literature, film, performance, and dance - steadily mounting a bold and persuasive theory of the arts which construes artworks as performances. Replete with examples drawn from both modern and traditional art, the book highlights core topics in aesthetics and art theory, including traditional theories about the nature of art, aesthetic appreciation, artistic intentions, performance, and artistic meaning..

About the Author:

David Davies is Associate Professor of Philosophy at McGill University and has published widely on topics in philosophy of art, metaphysics, philosophy of language, and philosophy of mind.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1405116676
• ISBN 13: 9781405116671
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 304