Art's emotions [electronic resource] : ethics, expression and aesthetic experience / Damien Freeman.
Art's Emotions is a reflective, thought-provoking exploration of the significance that experiencing emotion through art has upon our lives. Damien Freeman reviews and evaluates three traditional approaches to understanding artistic expression and moves on to develop a new theory of emotion that reso...
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Language: | English |
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Montreal :
McGill-Queen's University Press,
c2012.
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Variant Title: |
Art's Emotions: Ethics, Expression, and Aesthetic Experience |
Format: | Electronic eBook |
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Art's Emotions is a reflective, thought-provoking exploration of the significance that experiencing emotion through art has upon our lives. Damien Freeman reviews and evaluates three traditional approaches to understanding artistic expression and moves on to develop a new theory of emotion that resolves key questions in aesthetics. In a novel philosophical project, Freeman also establishes the ethical importance of art in nurturing humans and helping them flourish. --amazon.com |
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Bibliography Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-205) and index. |
ISBN: | 9780773594777 (online) |