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The Great Debate About Art
Roy Harris
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Paperback. Reflects on the early nineteenth-century doctrine of 'art for art's sake'. Attacked by Proudhon and Nietzsche, but defended by Theophile Gautier and E M Forster, it influenced movements as diverse as futurism and Dada. Num Pages: 104 pages. BIC Classification: ABA. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 176 x 119 x 8. Weight in Grams: 126.
In this lucid and insightful essay, renowned linguist Roy Harris reflects on the early nineteenth-century doctrine of 'art for art's sake'. Attacked by Proudhon and Nietzsche, but defended by Theophile Gautier and E. M. Forster, it influenced movements as diverse as futurism and Dada. Over the past two centuries, three main positions have emerged. The 'institutional' view declares art to be a status conferred upon certain works by the approval of influential institutions. The 'idiocentric' view gives absolute priority to the judgment of the individual. The third is the 'conceptual' view of art, which insists that what counts is the ... Read more
In this lucid and insightful essay, renowned linguist Roy Harris reflects on the early nineteenth-century doctrine of 'art for art's sake'. Attacked by Proudhon and Nietzsche, but defended by Theophile Gautier and E. M. Forster, it influenced movements as diverse as futurism and Dada. Over the past two centuries, three main positions have emerged. The 'institutional' view declares art to be a status conferred upon certain works by the approval of influential institutions. The 'idiocentric' view gives absolute priority to the judgment of the individual. The third is the 'conceptual' view of art, which insists that what counts is the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Prickly Paradigm Press, LLC United States
Number of pages
104
Condition
New
Number of Pages
130
Place of Publication
Chicago, United States
ISBN
9780984201006
SKU
V9780984201006
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About Roy Harris
Roy Harris is emeritus professor of general linguistics at the University of Oxford and honorary fellow of St Edmund Hall. He has also held university teaching posts in Hong Kong, Boston, and Paris.
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