Figuring Out Figurative Art: Contemporary Philosophers on Contemporary Paintings
About this ebook
- Jesse Prinz on John Currin
- Barry C. Smith and Edward Winters on Dexter Dalwood
- Lydia Goehr and Sam Rose on Tom de Freston
- Raymond Geuss on Adrian Ghenie and Chantal Joffe
- Hallvard Lillehammer on Paul Noble
- M. M. McCabe and Alexis Papazoglou on Ged Quinn
- Noël Carroll on Paula Rego
- Simon Blackburn and Jerrold Levinson on George Shaw
- Sondra Bacharach on Yue Minjun.
The discussion ranges over ethical, political, psychological and religious concepts, such as irony, disgust, apathy, inequality, physiognomy and wonder, to historical experiences of war, Marx-inspired political movements and Thatcherism, and standard problems in the philosophy of art, such as expression, style, depiction and ontology of art, as well as major topics in art history, such as vanitas painting, photography, pornography, and Dadaism. Many of the contributors are distinguished in areas of philosophy other than aesthetics and are writing about art for the first time. All show how productive the engagement can be between philosophy, more generally, and art.
About the author
Damien Freeman lectures on ethics and aesthetics at Pembroke College, Cambridge, UK and the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Australia. His books include Art’s Emotions: Ethics, Expression and Aesthetic Experience (2012).
Derek Matravers is Professor of Philosophy at The Open University, UK and his books include Introducing Philosophy of Art (2012), and Fiction and Narrative (2014).
