{"product_id":"art-as-performance-hardback-9781405116664","title":"Art as Performance (Hardback) 9781405116664","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eArt as Performance\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eDave Davies (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781405116664, Wiley\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 5 December 2003\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e296 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.6 x 16 x 2.7 cm, 0.553 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"David Davies’s Art as Performance is itself quite a performance. While agreeing with aesthetic contextualism’s rejection of empiricism in aesthetics, it presents a sophisticated and ingenious critique of, and alternative to, even the most enlightened contextualism about the nature, ontology, and value of art, holding that artworks are, all of them, performances by artists, rather than objects made by artists. Davies’s arguments will require, and will richly reward, the most careful attention from his fellow aestheticians.\" \u003ci\u003eJerrold Levinson, University of Maryland\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"David Davies brings philosophical rigor and fine-grained analytical reasoning to live and pressing debates about the fundamental nature of art. He offers a striking and original thesis as well as an illuminating presentation of the issues. A compelling performance!\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePeter Lamarque, University of York\u003c!--end--\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eElaborates and defends a broad conceptual framework for thinking about the arts.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eOffers a provocative view about the kinds of things that artworks are and how they are to be understood.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eReveals important continuities and discontinuities between traditional and modern art.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eHighlights core topics in aesthetics and art theory, including traditional theories about the nature of art, aesthetic appreciation, artistic intentions, performance, and artistic meaning.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePreface. \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e1. Introduction:.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChallenges to Aesthetic Empiricism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMethodological Interlude: The ‘Pragmatic Constraint’ on the Ontology of Art.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAesthetic Empiricism and the Philosophy of Art.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2. Aesthetic Empiricism:.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndirect Arguments Against Aesthetic Empiricism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e3. The Fine Structure of the Focus of Appreciation:.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Structure of the Focus of Appreciation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e4. The Artwork as Performance: An Argument from Artistic Intentions:.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOverview.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Bearing of Provenance on Work and Focus.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eArtistic Intentions and the Ontology of Art.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eInterpretation and Intention.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Role for Actual Intentions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOntological Implications.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e5. Provenance, Modality, and the Identity of the Artwork:.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePreliminaries.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e6. Artwork, Action, and Performance.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e7. Art as Performance:.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eElaborating the Performance Theory.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eStructure and Focus.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHeuristics and the Individuation of Artworks.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWork-Constitution and Modality on the Performance Theory.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePerformances, Actions, and Doings.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e8. Revisionism and Modernism Revisited.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e9. Performance as Art.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e10. Defining ‘Art’ as Performance, and the Values of Art:.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes Towards a Definition of ‘Art’.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Values of Art.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusions: The Case Against Contextualism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Philosophy [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Philosophy\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Philosophy%20%5BHP%5D%22\"\u003eHP\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52437751988504,"sku":"9781405116664","price":103.67,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781405116664.jpg?v=1784937930","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/art-as-performance-hardback-9781405116664","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}