ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|73 pages
Artforms
part II|70 pages
History
chapter 10|8 pages
What Was Fine Art?
part III|36 pages
Questions of Form, Style, and Address
part IV|24 pages
Art and Science
part V|79 pages
Comparisons among the Arts
chapter 27|12 pages
The Medium (Re)viewed
part VI|68 pages
Questions of Value
part VII|67 pages
Philosophers of Art
chapter 37|8 pages
Nelson Goodman's Theory of Expression and Exemplification
part VIII|61 pages
Institutional Questions