What, After All, Is a Work of Art? by Joseph Margolis

What, After All, Is a Work of Art? by Joseph Margolis

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This text directs attention toward historicity, the inherent historied nature of thinking, and the artifactual, culturally emergent nature of art and human selves. It applies these themes to several issues from the post/modernism dispute to the propriety of the analogy between artworks and selves.

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What, After All, Is a Work of Art? by Joseph Margolis

This text directs attention toward historicity, the inherent historied nature of thinking, and the artifactual, culturally emergent nature of art and human selves. It applies these themes to several issues from the post/modernism dispute to the propriety of the analogy between artworks and selves.

Joseph Margolis is Laura H. Carnell Professor of Philosophy at Temple University and is the author of numerous books comparing the arts and the sciences. He is past president of the American Society for Aesthetics and Honorary President of the International Association of Aesthetics. Margolis edits for Temple the series The Arts and Their Philosophies and is also co-editor of the Series of the Greater Philadelphia Philosophy Consortium, published by Penn State University Press.

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ISBN 13 9780271018669
ISBN 10 0271018666
Title What, After All, Is a Work of Art?
Author Joseph Margolis
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Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Pennsylvania State University Press
Year published 1999-03-15
Number of pages 160
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