Art Rethought: The Social Practices of Art

by Nicholas Wolterstorff

Book Overview

Human beings engage works of the arts in many different ways: they sing songs while working, they kiss icons, they create and dedicate memorials. Yet almost all philosophers of art of the modern period have ignored this variety and focused entirely on just one mode of engagement, namely, disinterested attention. In the first part of the book Nicholas Wolterstorff asks why philosophers have concentrated on just this one mode of engagement. The answer...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198747756
• ISBN13: 9780198747758
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.3"