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The Principles of Art (Galaxy Books) Book

Title: Principles of Art Binding: Paperback Author: R G Collingwood Publisher: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS ACADEMRead More

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  • Foyles

    This treatise on aesthetics begins by showing that the word "art" is used as a name not only for "art proper" but also for certain things which are "art falsely so called." These are craft or skill, magic, and amusement, each of which, by confusion with art proper, generates a false aesthetic theory. In the course of attacking these theories the author criticizes various psychological theories of art, offers a new theory of magic, and reinterprets Plato's so-called "attack on art," showing that it has been entirely misunderstood. Finally, he draws important inferences concerning the position of art in human society.

  • Blackwell

    Our first business is to investigate three kinds of art falsely so called. When that has been done we must see what there is left to be said about are proper. This treatise on aesthetics begins by showing that the word art is used as a name not...

  • 0195002091
  • 9780195002096
  • R. G. Collingwood
  • 2 January 1968
  • OUP USA
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 368
  • New edition
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