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100			_aHick, Darren Hudson
245			_aIntroducing aesthetics and the philosophy of art
260			_bBloomsbury Academic India, _a2017 _cNew York :
300			_axiii, 288 p. ; _bill., _c23 cm
365			_b799.00 _cINR _d01
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_aWhen Don Featherstone's plastic pink flamingos were first advertised in the 1957 Sears catalogue, the instructions were 'place in garden, lawn, to beautify'. The flamingos are placed on the cover of this book for another reason: to start us asking questions. That's where philosophy always begins. Introducing Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art is written to introduce students to a broad array of questions that have occupied philosophers since antiquity, and which continue to bother us today. Grounded in an array of real-world examples, from the classical to the contemporary - and from Marcel Duchamp's signed urinal to The Exorcist to the ugliest animal in the world - each chapter opens with an illustrated guiding case, introducing a number of the issues to be discussed, and serving as a touchstone throughout the chapter. Now expanded and revised, this is the ideal introduction to the major problems, issues, and debates in the philosophy of art and aesthetics.
650			_aArt Philosophy
650			_aAesthetic attention
650			_aArtistic practice
650			_a Arts funding
650			_aBeauty
650			_aPlastic bird
650			_aPink flamingos
650			_aCultural appropriation
650			_aCreation,discovery
650			_aDisinterestedness
650			_aEvaluation
650			_a Fine arts
650			_aGender
650			_aMoralism,radical
650			_aPleasure
650			_aPythagoras
650			_aRomanticism
650			_aSentiment
650			_aTragedy
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