The Principles of art
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The Principles of art
（Oxford paperbacks）
Oxford University Press, 1958
- : pbk
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First published by the Clarendon Press, 1938
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This treatise on aesthetics begins by showing that the word "art" is used as a name not only for "art proper" but also for certain things which are "art falsely so called." These are craft or skill, magic, and amusement, each of which, by confusion with art proper, generates a false aesthetic theory. In the course of attacking these theories the author criticizes various psychological theories of art, offers a new theory of magic, and reinterprets Plato's so-called "attack on art," showing that it has been entirely misunderstood. Finally, he draws important inferences concerning the position of art in human society.
Table of Contents
I: Introduction
BOOK I. ART AND NOT ART
II: Art and Craft
III: Art and Representation
IV: Art as Magic
V: Art as Amusement
VI: Art Proper: (1) As Expression
VII: Art Proper: (2) As Imagination
BOOK II. THE THEORY OF IMAGINATION
VIII: Thinking and Feeling
IX: Sensation and Imagination
X: Imagination and Consciousness
XI: Language
BOOK III. THE THEORY OF ART
XII: Art as Language
XIII: Art and Truth
XIV: The Artist and the Community
XV: Conclusion
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