The Space that Separates: A Realist Theory of Art radically
challenges our assumptions about what art is, what art does, who is
doing it, and why it matters. Rejecting the modernist and
market-driven misconception that art is only what artists do,
Wilson instead presents a realist case for living artfully. Art is
defined as the skilled practice of giving shareable form to our
experiences of being-in-relation with the real; that is to say, the
causally generative domain of the world that extends beyond our
direct observation, comprising relations, structures, mechanisms,
possibilities, powers, processes, systems, forces, values, ways of
being. In communicating such aesthetic experience we behold life's
betweenness - "the space that separates", so coming to know
ourselves as connected. Providing the first dedicated and
comprehensive account of art and aesthetics from a critical realist
perspective - Aesthetic Critical Realism (ACR), Wilson argues for a
profound paradigm shift in how we understand and care for culture
in terms of our system(s) of value recognition. Fortunately, we
have just the right tool to help us achieve this transformation -
and it's called art. Offering novel explanatory accounts of art,
aesthetic experience, value, play, culture, creativity, artistic
truth and beauty, this book will appeal to a wide audience of
students and scholars of art, aesthetics, human development,
philosophy and critical realism, as well as cultural practitioners
and policy-makers.
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