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Art as Language

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Description for Art as Language Paperback. Num Pages: 208 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 14. Weight in Grams: 330.

Art as Language systematically considers the implications of the pervasive belief that art is a language or functions like language. This insightful book clarifies the similarities and differences between expression in speech and expression in art, and examines Wittgenstein's work on language and mind as it applies to several prominent aesthetic theories.

Working from a Wittgensteinian perspective, G. L. Hagberg opens with a reexamination of some of the foundational aesthetic theorists of the earlier part of the twentieth century, including R. G. Collingwood and Susanne Langer. He uncovers the sources of many contemporary issues in philosophical aesthetics and investigates the ... Read more

The book closes with an analysis of the issues raised by leading aesthetic philosophies in the post-Wittgenteinian years. Focusing on the work of Arthur Danto, George Dickie, and Joseph Margolis, Hagberg discusses the philosophical presumptions and hidden complexities in recent theories of artistic perception, in theories concerning the nature of the art object, and in the institutional conception of the arts. Throughout Art as Language, he tests the claims of aesthetics against artistic practices in order to rethink the fundamental positions of the most important aesthetic theories of the last century.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801485312
SKU
V9780801485312
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99-1

About G. L. Hagberg
G. L. Hagberg is Professor of Philosophy at Bard College. He is the author of Meaning and Interpretation: Wittgenstein, Henry James, and Literary Knowledge, also from Cornell.

Reviews for Art as Language
The arguments are persuasive and deftly executed, and the examples are well chosen. Initiates into the main debates of analytic aesthetics who share the author's sense that the latter tradition is in need of internal critique... will not be disappointed.
Casey Haskins, SUNY at Purchase
The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism
Art as Language is in ... Read more

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