New Directions in Aesthetics

In this richly argued and provocative book, David Davies elaborates and defends a broad conceptual framework for thinking about the arts that reveals important continuities and discontinuities between traditional and modern art, and between different artistic disciplines.

• Elaborates and defends a broad conceptual framework for thinking about the arts.
• Offers a provocative view about the kinds of things that artworks are and how they are to be understood.
• Reveals important continuities and discontinuities between traditional and modern art.
• Highlights core topics in aesthetics and art theory, including traditional theories about the nature of art, aesthetic appreciation, artistic intentions, performance, and artistic meaning.

Authors: Dave Davies

Format: Paperback

Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 9781405116671

Publication date: 20031205