Beyond Art

by Dominic McIver Lopes

Book Overview

Dominic McIver Lopes articulates and defends a 'buck passing theory of art', namely that a work of art is nothing but a work in one of the arts. Having traced philosophical interest in theories of art to a reaction to certain puzzle cases of avant-garde art, he argues that none of the theories that have dominated philosophy since the 1960s adequately copes with these works. Whereas these theories have reached a dialectical impasse wherein they reiterate,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199591555
• ISBN13: 9780199591558
• Release Date: March 2014
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.6" x 8.6"