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Art as Performance
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In this richly argued and provocative book, David Davies elaborates and defends a broad conceptual framework for thinking about the arts that reveals important continuities and discontinuities between traditional and modern art, and between different artistic disciplines.
- Elaborates and defends a broad conceptual framework for thinking about the arts.
- Offers a provocative view about the kinds of things that artworks are and how they are to be understood.
- Reveals important continuities and discontinuities between traditional and modern art.
- Highlights core topics in aesthetics and art theory, including traditional theories about the nature of art, aesthetic appreciation, artistic intentions, performance, and artistic meaning.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Aesthetic Empiricism and the Philosophy of Art
- 3 The Fine Structure of the Focus of Appreciation
- 4 The Artwork as Performance: An Argument from Artistic Intentions
- 5 Provenance,Modality,and the Identity of the Artwork
- 6 Artwork,Action,and Performance
- 7 Art as Performance
- 8 Revisionism and Modernism Revisited
- 9 Performance as Art
- 10 Defining “Art ” as Performance,,and the Values of Art
- References
- Index
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