The Creation of Art: New Essays in Philosophical Aesthetics
Cambridge University Press, 7/19/2007
EAN 9780521037792, ISBN10: 0521037794
Paperback, 304 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.9 cm
Language: English
Although creativity, from Plato onwards, has been recognized as a topic in philosophy, it has been overshadowed by investigations of the meanings and values of works of art. In this collection of essays a distinguished roster of philosophers of art redress this trend. The subjects discussed include the nature of creativity and the process of artistic creation; the role that creative making should play in our understanding and evaluation of art; relations between concepts of creation and creativity; and ideas of tradition, metaphor, genius, imagination and genre. This is an important collection that will be eagerly sought by philosophers of art as well as theorists in art history, cinema studies and literary criticism.
Acknowledgements
Introduction
the creation of art
issues and perspectives Berys Gaut and Paisley Livingston
1. How to create a fictional character Peter Lamarque
2. Drawings as drawn
an approach to creation in an art Patrick Maynard
3. Pentimento Paisley Livingston
4. Exemplary originality
genius, universality and individuality Paul Guyer
5. The inexplicable
some thoughts after Kant Ted Cohen
6. Creativity and imagination Berys Gaut
7. Explanations of creativity David Novitz
8. Culture, convention and creativity Stein Haugom Olsen
9. Art, creativity and tradition Noël Carroll
10. Elster on artistic creativity Jerrold Levinson
11. The transfiguration of classical Hollywood norms
on Von Sternberg's last films with Dietrich George Wilson
List of contributors
Index.