Description
Comprising 45 chapters, written especially for this volume by an international team of leading experts, The Routledge Companion to the Philosophies of Painting and Sculpture is the first handbook of its kind. The editors have organized the chapters across eight broader sections:
- Artforms
- History
- Questions of form, style, and address
- Art and science
- Comparisons among the arts
- Questions of value
- Philosophers of art
- Institutional questions
Individual topics include art and cognitive science, evolutionary origins of art, art and perception, pictorial realism, artistic taste, style, issues of race and gender, art and religion, art and philosophy, and the end of art. The work of selected philosophers is also discussed, including Diderot, Hegel, Ruskin, Gombrich, Goodman, Wollheim, and Danto. With an introduction from the editors and comprehensively indexed, The Routledge Companion to the Philosophies of Painting and Sculpture serves as a point of entry to the subject for a broad range of students as well as an up-to-date reference for scholars in the field.
Author: Noël Carroll, Jonathan Gilmore
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 06/30/2023
Pages: 498
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 2.43lbs
Size: 10.00h x 7.00w x 1.13d
ISBN13: 9781138233812
ISBN10: 1138233811
BISAC Categories:
- Philosophy | General
About the Author
Noël Carroll is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the Graduate Center, CUNY, the author of nineteen books, editor or co-editor of eight volumes, a former journalist, and the author of five documentaries.
Jonathan Gilmore is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the Graduate Center and Baruch College, City University of New York. He is Co-Editor of the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism. His most recent book is Apt Imaginings: Feelings for Fictions and Other Creatures of the Mind (Oxford UP, 2020).
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