Techne Theory: A New Language for Art

by Henry Staten

Only since the Romantic period has art been understood in terms of an ineffable aesthetic quality of things like poems, paintings, and sculptures, and the art-maker as endowed with an inexplicable power of creation. From the Greeks to the 18th century, art was conceived as techne--the skill and know-how by which things and states of affairs are ordered. Techne Theory shows how to use this concept to cut through the Romantic notion...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1472592905
• ISBN13: 9781472592903
• Release Date: February 2019
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 9.1" x 6.2"