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How pictures complete us : the beautiful, the sublime, and the divine /
Despite the wonders of the digital world, people still go in record numbers to view drawings and paintings in galleries. Why? What is the magic that pictures work on us? This book provides a provocative explanation, arguing that some pictures have special kinds of beauty and sublimity that offer aes...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Stanford, CA :
Stanford University Press,
[2016]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : pictorial beauty and aesthetic transcendence
- Ideal beauty and classic art : a philosophical vindication
- Pictorial art and metaphysical beauty
- Transcendent subjectivity : Kant and the pictorial sublime
- Colour-field abstraction and the mystical sublime
- Holistic beauty at the limits of art
- photocollage, painting, and digital imagery
- Perspective and icon : Marion's theology of painting
- Metaphysics and theology of pictorial art.