Pleasure and the Arts: Enjoying Literature, Painting, and Music

by Christopher Butler

Book Overview

How do the arts give us pleasure? Covering a very wide range of artistic works, from Auden to David Lynch, Rembrandt to Edward Weston, and Richard Strauss to Keith Jarrett, Pleasure and the Arts offers us an explanation of our enjoyable emotional engagements with literature, music, and painting. The arts direct us to intimate and particularized relationships, with the people represented in the works, or with those we imagine produced them. When we...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199272484
• ISBN13: 9780199272488
• Release Date: November 2004
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 1.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 9.3" x 6.2"