In the preceding chapters, we have examined Ayn Rand’s esthetic theory in detail, explicating her analysis of the nature of art in relation to human cognition and emotion. The linchpin of Rand’s …
According to Leo Tolstoy, "Art is a human activity consisting this, that one man consciously, by means of certain external signs, hands on to others feelings he has lived through, and that others are infected …
Concept art is first of all an art of which the material is concepts, as the mate-rial of e.g. music is sound. since concepts are closely bound up with language, concept art is a kind of art of which the material …
The oldest documented forms of art are visual arts, which include creation of images or objects in fields including today painting, sculpture, printmaking, photography, and other visual media.
state the defining properties of art. Each claims that it is the true theory because it has formulated correctly into a real definition the nature of art; and that the others are false because they have left out
In what follows I bring forward a tentative proposal for what may be a new beginning. Essentially I propose an analysis that renders "art" a some- what unique concept (although one, as we shall see, …
His approach is rooted in evolutionary aesthetics and focuses on the idea that, in cross-cultural terms, the concept of art is best understood at the ‘conceptual center’ of standard or paradigmatic cases of art.