Artworks: Meaning, Definition, Value

by Robert Stecker

Book Overview

What is art? What is it to understand a work of art? What is the value of art? Robert Stecker seeks to answer these central questions of aesthetics by placing them within the context of an ongoing debate criticizing, but also explaining what can be learned from, alternative views. His unified philosophy of art, defined in terms of its evolving functions, is used to explain and to justify current interpretive practices and to motivate an investigation...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271015969
• ISBN13: 9780271015965
• Release Date: December 1996
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 334 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"