A paradox of surface and depth pervades the field of aesthetics.
How can art's surface meanings and qualities be properly
appreciated without understanding the cultural context that shapes
their creation and perception? But exploring such underlying
cultural conditions challenges perception of those immediate
qualities and meanings of aesthetic surface that constitute the
captivating power of art. If aesthetics is both surface and depth,
impassioned immediacy yet also critical distance of judgment, how
can this doubleness be held together in one philosophical vision?
In his new book, Richard Shusterman explores the dialectics of
surface and depth by examining key issues in the philosophy of art
and culture -- from the logic of interpretation and evaluation to
the roots of taste and convention, from the meanings of aesthetic
purity and immediacy to the role of nature, theory, and history in
our experience and understanding of art. In treating these topics,
Shusterman combines the methods of analytic philosophy, critical
theory, and poststructualism to arrive at new positions, displaying
the philosophical versatility, originality of vision, and graceful,
accessible writing that have become his trademark. Surface and
Depth is crowned by a new definition of art as dramatization.
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