The critical imagination
by Grant, James
This book is a study of metaphor, imaginativeness, and criticism of the arts. Since the eighteenth century, many philosophers have argued that appreciating art is rewarding because it involves responding imaginatively to a work. Literary works can be interpreted in many ways; architecture can be seen as stately, meditative, or forbidding; and sensitive descriptions of art are often colourful metaphors: music can 'shimmer', prose can be 'perfumed', and a painter's colouring can be 'effervescent'…
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This book is a study of metaphor, imaginativeness, and criticism of the arts. Since the eighteenth century, many philosophers have argued that appreciating art is rewarding because it involves responding imaginatively to a work. Literary works can be interpreted in many ways; architecture can be seen as stately, meditative, or forbidding; and sensitive descriptions of art are often colourful metaphors: music can 'shimmer', prose can be 'perfumed', and a painter's colouring can be 'effervescent'. Engaging with art, like creating it, seems to offer great scope for imagination. Hume, Kant, Oscar Wilde, Roger Scruton, and others have defended variations on this attractive idea. In this book, James Grant critically examines it.
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- Publication Date:2013.
- Edition:1. ed
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- Publisher(s):Oxford Univ. Press
- Place of Publication:Oxford
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2013.
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- Description:VIII, 192 Seiten : : Illustrationen.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780199661794, 0199661790
- oclc:ocn844025033
- LC Classification:N7475
- Dewey Decimal:701.18
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