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Overview"This text is part of the ""Bristol Introductions"" series which aims to present perspectives on philosophical themes, using non-technical language, for both the new and the advanced scholar. This introductory text examines how questions of understanding the pictorial and narrative arts relate to central themes in philosophy. It addresses such issues as: how can pictorial and narrative arts be usefully contrasted and compared?; what in principle can be, or cannot be, communicated in such different media?; why does it seem that, at its best, artistic communication goes beyond the limitations of its own medium - seeming to think and to communicate the uncommunicable?; and what kinds of thought are exercised in the pictorial and narrative arts? Both refer to or represent what we take the world to be, and in so doing make the concepts of aesthetic judgement and imagination unavoidable. The ways of understanding art are ways of understanding what it is to be human. Much of what baffles or misleads us in the arts invokes what puzzles us about ourselves. The issues raised are therefore central to philosophy as a discipline - failures in understanding art can be philosophical failures." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Andrew Harrison , Ray Monk (University of Southampton)Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Imprint: Thoemmes Continuum Volume: No. 3 Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 0.422kg ISBN: 9781855064997ISBN 10: 1855064995 Pages: 236 Publication Date: 15 April 1996 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Language: English Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |