Explanation and Value in the Arts

by Ivan Gaskell

Book Overview

Explanation and Value in the Arts offers penetrating studies by art historians, literary theorists and philosophers, of issues central to explaining works of literature and painting. The first chapters look at the sources of interest in the fine arts and point to the intimate relation between aesthetic and other values. The following contributions develop the interaction between value and explanation by examining the construction of value in the study...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521429536
• ISBN13: 9780521429535
• Release Date: June 2010
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"