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Overview"What, if anything, has art to do with the rest of our lives, and in particular with those ethical and political issues that matter to us most? Will art created today be likely to play a role in our lives as profound as that of the best art of the past? A Theory of Art shifts the focus of aesthetics from the traditional debate of ""what is art?"" to the engaging question of ""what is art for?"" Skillfully describing the social and historical situation of art today, author Karol Berger argues that music exemplifies the current condition of art in a radical, acute, and revealing fashion. He also uniquely combines aesthetics with poetics and hermeneutics. Offering a careful synthesis of a wide breadth of scholarship from art history, musicology, literary studies, political philosophy, ethics, and metaphysics, and written in a clear, accessible style, this book will appeal to anyone with a serious interest in the arts." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Karol Berger (Osgood Professor of Fine Arts, Osgood Professor of Fine Arts, Stanford University)Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc Dimensions: Width: 16.00cm , Height: 3.10cm , Length: 23.60cm Weight: 0.590kg ISBN: 9780195128604ISBN 10: 0195128605 Pages: 304 Publication Date: 16 December 1999 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsReviewsBerger writes well, is suggestive and in places, particularly in relation to music and the nature of poetic forms, genuinely illuminating. As a book for generally interested non-specialists it is genuinely engaging and worth reading MIND What is distinctive is the combination of aesthetics with poetics and hermeneutics and conceiving of music as the key to understanding the situation in the contemporary arts MIND Berger writes well, is suggestive and in places, particularly in relation to music and the nature of poetic forms, genuinely illuminating. As a book for generally interested non-specialists it is genuinely engaging and worth reading MIND What is distinctive is the combination of aesthetics with poetics and hermeneutics and conceiving of music as the key to understanding the situation in the contemporary arts MIND Author InformationKarol Berger Is Osgood Hooker Professor in Fine Arts at Stanford University. He is the author of numerous studies in the history of music aesthetics and theory, vocal pholyphony from 1400 to 1600, and instrumental music from 1780 to 1850. His Musica Ficta (1987) won the Otto Kinkeldey Award of the American Musicological Society. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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