Routledge Research in Aesthetics
The Philosophy of Fiction: Imagination and Cognition
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By Patrik Engisch, Julia Langkau
August 26, 2024
This book presents new research on the crucial role that imagination plays in contemporary philosophy of fiction. The first part of the book challenges the main paradigm set by Kendall Walton and Gregory Currie, according to which there is a necessary connection between fiction and a prescription ...
Art, Representation, and Make-Believe: Essays on the Philosophy of Kendall L. Walton
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By Sonia Sedivy
September 25, 2023
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 – ...
Philosophy of Improvisation: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Theory and Practice
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By Susanne Ravn, Simon Høffding, James McGuirk
May 31, 2023
This volume brings together philosophical and interdisciplinary perspectives on improvisation. The contributions connect the theoretical dimensions of improvisation with different viewpoints on its practice in the arts and the classroom. The chapters address the phenomenon of improvisation in two ...
The Aesthetics of Virtual Reality
1st Edition
By Grant Tavinor
May 31, 2023
This is the first book to present an aesthetics of virtual reality media. It situates virtual reality media in terms of the philosophy of the arts, comparing them to more familiar media such as painting, film and photography. When philosophers have approached virtual reality, they have almost ...
Imperfectionist Aesthetics in Art and Everyday Life
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By Peter Cheyne
December 30, 2022
This book presents interdisciplinary research on the aesthetics of perfection and imperfection. Broadening this growing field, it connects the aesthetics of imperfection with issues in areas including philosophy, music, literature, urban environment, architecture, art theory, and cultural studies. ...
Portraits and Philosophy
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By Hans Maes
June 14, 2022
Portraits are everywhere. One finds them not only in museums and galleries, but also in newspapers and magazines, in the homes of people and in the boardrooms of companies, on stamps and coins, on millions of cell phones and computers. Despite its huge popularity, however, portraiture hasn’t ...
Philosophy of Sculpture: Historical Problems, Contemporary Approaches
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By Kristin Gjesdal, Fred Rush, Ingvild Torsen
April 29, 2022
Sculpture has been a central aspect of almost every art culture, contemporary or historical. This volume comprises ten essays at the cutting edge of thinking about sculpture in philosophical terms, representing approaches to sculpture from the perspectives of both Anglo-American and European ...
Radically Rethinking Copyright in the Arts: A Philosophical Approach
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By James Young
April 29, 2022
This book radically rethinks the philosophical basis of copyright in the arts. The author reflects on the ontology of art to argue that current copyright laws cannot be justified. The book begins by identifying two problems that result from current copyright laws: (1) creativity is restricted and (...
A Philosophy of the Art School
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By Michael Newall
June 30, 2021
*Winner of the American Society for Aesthetics 2019 Outstanding Monograph Prize*Until now, research on art schools has been largely occupied with the facts of particular schools and teachers. This book presents a philosophical account of the underlying practices and ideas that have come to shape ...
Paintings and the Past: Philosophy, History, Art
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By Ivan Gaskell
June 30, 2021
This book is an exploration of how art—specifically paintings in the European manner—can be mobilized to make knowledge claims about the past. No type of human-made tangible thing makes more complex and bewildering demands in this respect than paintings. Ivan Gaskell argues that the search for ...
Philosophy and Film: Bridging Divides
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By Christina Rawls, Diana Neiva, Steven S. Gouveia
June 30, 2021
This volume collects twenty original essays on the philosophy of film. It uniquely brings together scholars working across a range of philosophical traditions and academic disciplines to broaden and advance debates on film and philosophy. The book includes contributions from a number of prominent ...
The Aesthetics of Self-Becoming: How Art Forms Empower
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By Paul Crowther
June 30, 2021
This book shows that art involves an aesthetics of self-becoming, wherein we do not simply consume artistic meaning, but become empowered—by adapting ourselves to what creation in the different art forms makes possible. Paul Crowther argues that the great political task in aesthetics is no longer ...