Defining Art, Creating the Canon: Artistic Value in an Era of Doubt

by Paul Crowther

Book Overview

What is art; why should we value it; and what allows us to say that one work is better than another?

Traditional answers have emphasized aesthetic form. But this has been challenged by institutional definitions of art and postmodern critique. The idea of distinctively artistic value based on aesthetic criteria is at best doubted, and at worst, rejected. This book, however, champions the traditional notions. It restores the mimetic definition...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199698589
• ISBN13: 9780199698585
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.2" x 9.2"