For the Love of Beauty: Art History and the Moral Foundations of Aesthetic Judgment

by Arthur Pontynen

For most of the last century the methodology of art history has followed a positivist approach, emphasizing form and style, fact and history as the means of studying works of art. By contrast the philosophical pursuit of truth, once central to the fine arts and humanities has largely been abandoned. In For The Love of Beauty , Arthur Pontynen offers a searching and ambitious critique of modern aesthetic practice that aims to restore the pursuit of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0765803011
• ISBN13: 9780765803016
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 371 Pages
• Weight: 1.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.5" x 9.3"