Music, Film, and Art

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Wipf and Stock Publishers, 01.07.2010 - 234 Seiten
Music, Film, & Art presents 13 lively essays on current issues in aesthetics and philosophy of the arts, from classifying a work as good or poor to the difficulties contemporary audiences face in attempting to understand and appreciate the avant-garde. Offering fresh insights on music, painting, and film, as well as literature, dance, theater, and sculpture, this thought-provoking volume will be of considerable interest to the serious general reader and to students, critics, and aestheticians.
 

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The Identity of a Work of MusicI
3
Part
37
About Imaginary Objects
39
Fictional Sentences
53
Part Three
79
Movement and Action in the Performing Arts
81
Film as Art
104
Remarks on the CinematicUncinematic 3 3
133
On the Nature of Painting and Sculpture
148
Part Four
167
New Methods New Criteria
169
Artistic Freedom and Social Control
186
Humanistic Functions of the Arts Today
196
The Need for Art in the Modern World
208
Index
219
Urheberrecht

Movement and Action in Film
140

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Haig Khatchadourian is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee. He received his PhD in philosophy from Duke University and has been awarded several prizes for poetry and literary essays. In 1973 he received the Outstanding Educator of America Award.

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