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Pleasure and the Arts - Enjoying Literature, Painting, and Music (Paperback, New edition)
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Pleasure and the Arts - Enjoying Literature, Painting, and Music (Paperback, New edition)
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How do the arts give us pleasure? Covering a very wide range of
artistic works, from Auden to David Lynch, Rembrandt to Edward
Weston, and Richard Strauss to Keith Jarrett, Pleasure and the Arts
offers us an explanation of our enjoyable emotional engagements
with literature, music, and painting. The arts direct us to
intimate and particularized relationships - with the people
represented in the works, or with those we imagine produced them.
When we listen to music or look at a purely abstract painting, or
when we drink a glass of wine, can we enjoy the experience without
verbalizing our response? Do our interpretative assumptions, our
awareness of technique, and our attitudes to fantasy, get in the
way of our appreciation of art, or enhance it? As the book examines
these questions and more, we discover how curiosity drives us to
enjoy narratives, ordinary jokes, metaphors, and modernist
epiphanies, and how narrative in all the arts can order and provoke
intense enjoyment. Pleasurable in its own right, Pleasure and the
Arts presents a sparkling explanation of the enduring interest of
artistic expression.
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