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Pleasure and the Arts Oxford Editor

Pleasure and the Arts By Oxford Editor

Pleasure and the Arts by Oxford Editor


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Summary

How do the arts give us pleasure? Covering a range of artistic works, from Auden to David Lynch, Rembrandt to Edward Weston, and Richard Strauss to Keith Jarrett, this work offers an explanation of our emotional engagements with literature, music, and painting. It offers an explanation of the enduring interest of artistic expression.

Pleasure and the Arts Summary

Pleasure and the Arts by Oxford Editor

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 particularised relationships, with the people represented in the works, or with those we imagine produced them. When we listen to music, look at a purely abstract painting, or drink a glass of wine, can we enjoy the experience without verbalising our response? Do our interpretative assumptions, our awareness of technique, and our attitudes to fantasy, get in the way of our appreciation of art, or enhance it? Examining these questions and more, we discover how curiosity drives us to enjoy narratives, ordinary jokes, metaphors, and modernist epiphanies, and how narrative in all the arts can order and provoke intense enjoyment. Pleasurable in its own right, Pleasure and the Arts presents a sparkling explanation of the enduring interest of artistic expression.

Table of Contents

Introduction; 1. Jokes, Poems, Understanding; 2. Emotions and Narrative; 3. Beyond Words: Sensation, Abstraction, and Form; 4. Specificity, Fantasy, and Critique

Additional information

GOR010034286
9780199272488
0199272484
Pleasure and the Arts by Oxford Editor
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Oxford University Press
20041001
256
N/A
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