[Mobile book] The Abuse of Beauty: Aesthetics and the Concept of Art (The Paul Carus Lectures Series 21)
• Arthur C. Danto •
| #904940 in Books | Open Court | 2003-02 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x.50 x6.00l,.72 | File Name: 0812695402 | 191 pages |
||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Five Stars|By Customer|The quality is very good! Thanks you so much!|0 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| One of the Must-Read books in philosophy of art|By Fernando A. Castro|Read it yourself and make up you own mind. Danto is one of the few philosophers with a functional right hemisphere of the brain.|22 of 3|From Publishers Weekly|Charting the disappearance of beauty as a primary artistic value in the 20th century, Danto (The Transfiguration of the Commonplace, etc.) offers a hot-and-cold mix of philosophical musings and autobiographical reflections that attempt to
Danto simply and entertainingly traces the evolution of the concept of beauty over the past century and explores how it was removed from the definition of art. Beauty then came to be regarded as a serious aesthetic crime, whereas a hundred years ago it was almost unanimously considered the supreme purpose of art. Beauty is not, and should not be, the be-all and end-all of art, but it has an important place, and is not something to be avoided. Danto draws erudite... [PDF.me77] The Abuse of Beauty: Aesthetics and the Concept of Art (The Paul Carus Lectures Series 21) Rating: 3.78 (687 Votes)
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