{"product_id":"art-matters-book-peter-de-bolla-9780674006492","title":"Art Matters","description":"In the face of a great work of art, we so often stand mute, struck dumb. Is this a function - perhaps the first and foremost - of aesthetic experience? Or do we lack the words to say what we feel? Countering contemporary assumptions that art is valued only according to taste or ideology, Peter de Bolla gives a voice - and vocabulary - to the wonder art can inspire. Working toward a better understanding of what it is to be profoundly moved by a work of art, he forces us to reconsider the importance of art works and the singular nature and value of our experience of them. In many ways a \"practical aesthetics,\" \"Art Matters\" proceeds by way of example. Through chapters attending to three works of art - Barnett Newman's painting Vir Heroicus Sublimis, pianist Glenn Gould's second recording of Bach's Goldberg Variations, and William Wordsworth's poem \"We Are Seven\" - de Bolla plots a personal history of aesthetic experience that opens up the general forms of art appreciation. His book invites us to a closer encounter with art, and to a deeper appreciation and clearer expression of what such an encounter might hold.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49570240954641,"sku":"GOR007009296","price":46.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0674006496.jpg?v=1751262985","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/art-matters-book-peter-de-bolla-9780674006492","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}