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.
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