What Artistry Can Do: Essays on Art and Beauty

Bart Verschaffel

What Artistry Can Do

Essays on Art and Beauty

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Bart Verschaffel, Universiteit Gent, Belgium

Publisher:: Edinburgh University Press
Online publication date:: November 2022
Print publication year:: 2022
Online ISBN:: 9781474494922

Series:: Refractions
Subjects:: Art, Applied Arts

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These 12 essays by Belgian philosopher and theorist Bart Verschaffel - many translated into English for the first time - explore the meaning and relevance of art today. They cover a rich and inventive range of topics, from mockery and laughter to the artwork as a ‘gift’, and from caricature to splendour.

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Essays on Art and Beauty

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-vi

List of Figures
pp vii-viii

Series Editor’s Preface
pp ix-xi

Preface
pp xii-xvi

Dedication
pp 1-2

Introduction
pp 3-10

Part I - Art as a Form of Understanding
pp 11-12

1 - First Ideas on Art, Being Moved and Criticism
pp 13-18

2 - Critical?Art
pp 19-25

3 - What Art Can Do (Malpertuis by Jean Ray)
pp 26-33

4 - On the Pleasure of Finding What Is Hidden (With Hidden Noise by Marcel Duchamp)
pp 34-46

5 - Memoria: Memory Work and the ‘Conversation of Mankind’
pp 47-62

Part II - Aspects of Artistry
pp 63-64

6 - On Laughter, Opinions and Artistic Freedom
pp 65-90

7 - Notes on the Work of Art as a Gift
pp 91-102

8 - Being an Artist Is an Art in Itself: On the ‘First Work’ and the Notion of ‘Oeuvre’
pp 103-115

9 - Double-Speak
pp 116-128

Part III - Elementary Aesthetics
pp 129-130

10 - On Splendour and Modern Beauty
pp 131-141

11 - Fatal Truths: Notes on the Beauty Experience
pp 142-153

12 - On the Aesthetic Gaze, Beauty and the Two Sources of Ugliness
pp 154-174

First Publication
pp 175-176

Notes
pp 177-196

Index
pp 197-199

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