Art rethought : the social practices of art by Wolterstorff, Nicholas, author instant download

Art rethought : the social practices of art by Wolterstorff, Nicholas, author instant download

1 online resource, Most philosophers of art of the modern period have concentrated their attention on engaging works of the arts as objects of disinterested aesthetic attention, and on the works that reward that modern of engagement, virtually ignoring the many other ways in which we engage works of the arts. The argument of this book is that it is important for philosophers to expand their attention and discuss as well the more important of those other ways in which we engage works of the arts, Includes bibliographical references and index, Online resource; title from home page (viewed on August 18, 2015), Cover; Art Rethought: The Social Practices of Art; Copyright; Preface; Contents; Chapter Introduction; PART ONE: THE GRAND NARRATIVE OF ART IN THE MODERN WORLD; Chapter 1: The Early Modern Revolution in the Arts; Art for contemplation; The birth of a concept; Disinterestedness; The emergence of an institutional base; The elitism; Shiner's alternative story; Chapter 2: Why the Revolution?; Chapter 3: The Grand Narrative and the Grand Narrative Theses; The art-historical thesis: the arts coming into their own; The sociological thesis: the arts as socially other and transcendent, Chapter 4: Wherein Lies the Worth of Disinterested Attention?Other ways of accounting for the worth of disinterested attention; Chapter 5: Art, Religion, and the Grand Narrative; Works of the arts as God-surrogates; Works of the arts as revelatory of divinity; Art as salvific; The artist as a creator like unto God; In conclusion; PART TWO: WHY THE GRAND NARRATIVE HAS TO GO; Chapter 6: The Inapplicability of the Grand Narrative to Recent Art ; The idea and origins of art history; The end of art history; Review; Chapter 7: Why the Grand Narrative Never Was Tenable, On the claim that to engage a work of the arts disinterestedly, one must engage it as an object of attentive viewing, listening, or readingOn the claim that the arts come into their own insofar as we engage works of the arts…