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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Torres, Louis, 1938- What art is. Chicago, Ill. : Open Court, c2000 (OCoLC)606373266 |
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| Named Person: | Ayn Rand; Ayn Rand |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Louis Torres; Michelle Marder Kamhi |
| ISBN: | 0812693728 9780812693720 0812693736 9780812693737 |
| OCLC Number: | 43787446 |
| Description: | xvi, 523 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | Traditional Meanings of the Term "Art" -- What the Ordinary Person Thinks -- The Ubiquitous Question: "But Is It Art?" -- The Experts Speak -- Need for a Valid Theory and Definition of Art -- Ayn Rand's Theory of Art -- The Status of Rand Studies -- Overview of the Present Study -- Ayn Rand's Philosophy of Art -- "The Psycho-Epistemology of Art" -- The Purpose of Art -- Metaphysical Value-Judgments -- Rand's Definition of Art -- The Cognitive Function of Art -- The Creative Process -- Art, Religion, and Philosophy -- Art and Ethics -- Romanticism and Naturalism -- "Efficacy of Consciousness" -- "Philosophy and Sense of Life" -- Emotional Abstraction -- Philosophy and Sense of Life -- Sense of Life and Character -- Sense of Life in Love and Art -- "Art and Sense of Life" -- Emotion and "Expression" in Art -- "Communication" in Art -- The Significance of Artistic Selectivity -- The Response to Art -- Subject and Meaning in Art -- Style -- Esthetic Judgment -- "Art and Cognition" -- Literature -- Painting and Sculpture -- The Performing Arts -- The Art of Film -- The Arts and Cognition -- "Modern Art" -- Music and Cognition -- Music and Emotion -- Music and Sense of Life -- Rand's Mistaken Hypothesis -- The Importance of Melody -- The Composer's Viewpoint -- Music as a "Re-Creation of Reality" -- The Symphony Orchestra -- Avant-Garde "Music" -- The Definition of Art -- Anti-Essentialism in Contemporary Philosophy -- The "Institutional" Definition of Art -- The Rules of Definition -- Rand's Definition of Art. |
| Responsibility: | Louis Torres & Michelle Marder Kamhi. |
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