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The Theosophical signification of colours. [ 10 ][ 11 ] A painting representing the astral body of the average man, [ 12 ][ note 3 ] from C. W. Leadbeater 's Man Visible and Invisible (1902) The Theosophical teaching on the human aura was elaborated by Charles W. Leadbeater and Rudolf Steiner in early 1900s. [ 15 ][ note 4 ] Both Leadbeater and ...
Jun 2, 2014 · Art is not vague production, transitory and isolated, but a power which must be directed to the improvement and refinement of the human soul — to, in fact, the raising of the spiritual triangle. If art refrains from doing this work, a chasm remains unbridged, for no other power can take the place of art in this activity.
Martin Heidegger (1889–1976) is one of the most famous of twentiethcentury philosophers. His book Being and Time (1927) is a landmark in philosophical thought, raising the issue of a crisis in modernity that can be resolved only by a wholesale rethinking of contemporary humankind’s thought and very existence.
- I. A Question of Method
- II. The 2009 “What Is Art?” Surveys
- III. Significance of The Results
The stock challenge to a theory or definition of art is that it includes things that are not artworks or excludes things that are.3Yet most philosophers of art say little or nothing about the method(s) that they use to identify whether something is being correctly identified as art—apart, of course, from the criteria proposed by their theories. Wer...
In February 2009, I posted an online survey designed to elicit and tabulate subjects’ intuitions or judgments about what is art. I say “intuitions or judgments” because the survey does not attempt to distinguish between intuitions in the narrow sense—spontaneous seemings—and inferential judgments. In September 2009, I posted an easier‐to‐use versio...
How significant are the results? My sample sizes are large enough to be statistically significant. For all subjects (151), the margin of error for 95% confidence is 8%. For art professionals (79), the margin of error for 95% confidence is 11%. My working hypothesis was that none of the art theories I tested would fully succeed at tracking the intui...
- Richard Kamber
- 2011
Abstract. Pictures are valuable partly because they engage perception in distinctive ways. This chapter surveys recent accounts of depiction, of the distinctive content and phenomenology of our experiences of images, and of the artistic or aesthetic value that these experiences afford. Particular attention is paid to recent research on the ...
An Introduction to the Philosophy of Art An Introduction to the Philosophy of Art is a clear and compact survey of philosophical theories of the nature and value of art, including in its scope literature, painting, sculpture, music, dance, architecture, movies, conceptual art, and performance art. This second edition incorporates
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Philosophy of art, the study of the nature of art, including concepts such as interpretation, representation and expression, and form. It is closely related to aesthetics, the philosophical study of beauty and taste. It is distinguished from art criticism, the analysis and evaluation of particular works of art.
