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All these years, along with countless kindred souls, I am certain, I had made my way into the galleries of Lower Madison and Lower Soho and the Art Gildo Midway of Fifty-seventh Street, and into the museums, into the Modern, the Whitney, and the Guggenheim, the Bastard Bauhaus, the New Brutalist, and the Fountainhead Baroque, into the lowliest store-front churches and grandest Robber Baronial temples of Modernism.
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In this wide-ranging and challenging 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. The centerpiece is a novel and provocative view about the kinds of things that artworks are, with important consequences for how they are to be understood.
Beginning with a lively discussion of the difficulties that audiences experience in their attempts to grasp and appreciate much modern and contemporary art, Davies continues with illuminating considerations of important and influential works from a broad range of artistic media - including painting, music, literature, film, performance, and dance - steadily mounting a bold and persuasive theory of the arts which construes artworks as performances. Replete with examples drawn from both modern and traditional art, the book highlights core topics in aesthetics and art theory, including traditional theories about the nature of art, aesthetic appreciation, artistic intentions, performance, and artistic meaning.
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- Title Art as Performance
- Author Dave Davies
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 296
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Wiley-Blackwell
- Date 2003-12-30
- Features Bibliography, Index
- ISBN 9781405116664 / 1405116668
- Weight 1.21 lbs (0.55 kg)
- Dimensions 9.28 x 6.16 x 1.06 in (23.57 x 15.65 x 2.69 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Aesthetics, Art - Philosophy
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2003011349
- Dewey Decimal Code 111.85
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Citations
- Choice, 07/01/2004, Page 2056
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