[PDF] Art Representation And Make Believe eBook

Author : Sonia Sedivy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 11,99 MB
Release : 2021-06-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1000396207

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This is the first collection of essays focused on the many-faceted work of Kendall L. Walton. Walton has shaped debate about the arts for the last 50 years. He provides a comprehensive framework for understanding arts in terms of the human capacity of make-believe that shows how different arts – visual, photographic, musical, literary, or poetic – can be explained in terms of complex structures of pretense, perception, imagining, empathy, and emotion. His groundbreaking work has been taken beyond aesthetics to address foundational issues concerning linguistic and scientific representations – for example, about the nature of scientific modelling or to explain how much of what we say is quite different from the literal meanings of our words. Contributions from a diverse group of philosophers probe Walton’s detailed proposals and the themes for research they open. The essays provide an overview of important debates that have Walton’s work at their core. This book will be of interest to scholars and graduate students working on aesthetics across the humanities, as well as those interested in the topic of representation and its intersection with perception, language, science, and metaphysics.

Author : Kendall L. Walton
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 47,44 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780674576032

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Representations in visual arts and fiction play an important part in our lives and culture. Walton presents a theory of the nature of representation, which shows its many varieties and explains its importance. His analysis is illustrated with examples from film, art, literature and theatre.

Author : Kendall L. Walton
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 40,58 MB
Release : 1993-10-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0674268229

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Representations—in visual arts and in fiction—play an important part in our lives and culture. Kendall Walton presents here a theory of the nature of representation, which illuminates its many varieties and goes a long way toward explaining its importance. Drawing analogies to children’s make believe activities, Walton constructs a theory that addresses a broad range of issues: the distinction between fiction and nonfiction, how depiction differs from description, the notion of points of view in the arts, and what it means for one work to be more “realistic” than another. He explores the relation between appreciation and criticism, the character of emotional reactions to literary and visual representations, and what it means to be caught up emotionally in imaginary events. Walton’s theory also provides solutions to the thorny philosophical problems of the existence—or ontological standing—of fictitious beings, and the meaning of statements referring to them. And it leads to striking insights concerning imagination, dreams, nonliteral uses of language, and the status of legends and myths. Throughout Walton applies his theoretical perspective to particular cases; his analysis is illustrated by a rich array of examples drawn from literature, painting, sculpture, theater, and film. Mimesis as Make-Believe is important reading for everyone interested in the workings of representational art.

Author : J. Alexander Bareis
Publisher : ISSN
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,64 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Discourse analysis, Narrative
ISBN : 9783110441536

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A major question in studies of aesthetic expression is how we can understand and explain similarities and differences among different forms of representation. In the current volume, this question is addressed through the lens of make-believe theory, a philosophical theory broadly introduced by two seminal works - Kendall Walton's Mimesis as Make-Believe and Gregory Currie's The Nature of Fiction, both published 1990. Since then, make-believe theory has become central in the philosphical discussion of representation. As a first of its kind, the current volume comprises 17 detailed studies of highly different forms of representation, such as novels, plays, TV-series, role games, computer games, lamentation poetry and memoirs. The collection contributes to establishing make-believe theory as a powerful theoretical tool for a wide array of studies traditionally falling under the humanities umbrella.

Author : Richard Wollheim
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 34,91 MB
Release : 2001-07-30
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780521801744

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A collection of essays on Wollheim's philosophy of art; includes a response from Wollheim himself.

Author : Hans Maes
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 22,82 MB
Release : 2017-05-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0191509620

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What is art? What counts as an aesthetic experience? Does art have to beautiful? Can one reasonably dispute about taste? What is the relation between aesthetic and moral evaluations? How to interpret a work of art? Can we learn anything from literature, film or opera? What is sentimentality? What is irony? How to think philosophically about architecture, dance, or sculpture? What makes something a great portrait? Is music representational or abstract? Why do we feel terrified when we watch a horror movie even though we know it to be fictional? In Conversations on Art and Aesthetics, Hans Maes discusses these and other key questions in aesthetics with ten world-leading philosophers of art: Noël Carroll, Gregory Currie, Arthur Danto, Cynthia Freeland, Paul Guyer, Carolyn Korsmeyer, Jerrold Levinson, Jenefer Robinson, Roger Scruton, and Kendall Walton. The exchanges are direct, open, and sharp, and give a clear account of these thinkers' core ideas and intellectual development. They also offer new insights into, and a deeper understanding of, contemporary issues in the philosophy of art.

Author : Leonard Koren
Publisher : Imperfect Publishing
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 19,62 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Art
ISBN : 0981484603

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Beskrivelse: Wabi-sabi is a beauty of things imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete. It is a beauty of things modest and humble. It is a beauty of things unconventional.

Author : Chris Bateman
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 22,25 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1846949416

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Can games be art or is all art a kind of game? A philosophical investigation of play and imaginary things.

Author : Michael Morris
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 33,29 MB
Release : 2020-05-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0198861753

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Real Likenesses presents a radical new approach to artistic representation. At its heart is a serious reconsideration of the relationship between medium and content in representational art, which counters current dominant theories that make attention to the former inevitably a distraction from attending to the latter. Through close analysis of paintings, photographs, and novels, Michael Morris proposes a new understanding of the real likenesses we encounter in representational art; what they are, how they are made present to us, and how they are created. The result is an intuitive way of thinking about how these art forms work.

Author : Adam Toon
Publisher : Springer
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 12,3 MB
Release : 2012-10-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 1137292237

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Scientists often try to understand the world by building simplified and idealised models of it. Adam Toon develops a new approach to scientific models by comparing them to the dolls and toy trucks of children's imaginative games, and offers a unified framework to solve difficult metaphysical problems and help to make sense of scientific practice.