Berys Gaut / Paisley Livingston (eds.)

The Creation of Art

New Essays in Philosophical Aesthetics
Herausgeber: Gaut, Berys; Livingston, Paisley

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Although creativity, from Plato onwards, has been recognized as a topic in philosophy, it has been overshadowed by investigations of the meanings and values of works of art. In this collection of essays a distinguished roster of philosophers of art redress this trend. The subjects discussed include the nature of creativity and the process of artistic creation; the role that creative making should play in our understanding and evaluation of art; relations between concepts of creation and creativity; and ideas of tradition, metaphor, genius, imagination and genre. This is an important collection that will be eagerly sought by philosophers of art as well as theorists in art history, cinema studies and literary criticism.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. April 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 496g
• ISBN-13: 9780521037792
• ISBN-10: 0521037794
• Artikelnr.: 22783532

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction: the creation of art: issues and perspectives Berys Gaut and Paisley Livingston
1. How to create a fictional character Peter Lamarque
2. Drawings as drawn: an approach to creation in an art Patrick Maynard
3. Pentimento Paisley Livingston
4. Exemplary originality: genius, universality and individuality Paul Guyer
5. The inexplicable: some thoughts after Kant Ted Cohen
6. Creativity and imagination Berys Gaut
7. Explanations of creativity David Novitz
8. Culture, convention and creativity Stein Haugom Olsen
9. Art, creativity and tradition Noël Carroll
10. Elster on artistic creativity Jerrold Levinson
11. The transfiguration of classical Hollywood norms: on Von Sternberg's last films with Dietrich George Wilson
List of contributors
Index.