What art is like, in constant reference to the Alice books [electronic resource] / Miguel Tamen.
Tamen, Miguel.
2012
N70 .T46 2012eb
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Title What art is like, in constant reference to the Alice books [electronic resource] / Miguel Tamen.
Author Tamen, Miguel.
ISBN 9780674067950 electronic book
9780674067066
Imprint Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2012.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (117 p.)
Call Number N70 .T46 2012eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 701
Summary "What art is like, in constant reference to the Alice books is a comic, serious inquiry into the nature of art. It provides welcome relief from prevailing modes of explaining art that involve definitions, philosophical claims, and critical judgments put forth by third parties. Scrapping all such chatter, Miguel Tamen's aphoristic lark with aesthetic questions proceeds by taking its technical vocabulary only from Lewis Carroll's Alice's adventures in Wonderland and Through the looking-glass. According to Tamen, it would be ridiculous to think of poems or paintings or films or any variety of artistic production as distinct from other things in the world, including people. Talking about art should be contiguous with talking about many other relevant and important matters. Tamen offers a series of analogies and similes to help us imagine these connected experiences. One, taken from the analytical table of contents where the book is writ small, suggests that 'understanding a poem is like understanding a cat; neither ever says anything back and you can't keep a conversation with them. All art is like this, but not only art is like this; nature, the past, numbers are also like this.' Tamen takes up many central issues in aesthetics and the philosophy of art, including the connection between art and having fuzzy ideas about art, the mistake of imagining that art-decisions are put forth by art-courts where you are both judge and jury, and the notion that what happens with art also happens to you."--Jacket.
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