Theory and Philosophy of Art: Style, Artist, and Society

Title: Theory and Philosophy of Art: Style, Artist, and Society Author: Meyer Schapiro ISBN: 9780807613573 Publisher: George Braziller Inc. Published: 1998 Binding: Paperback Language: English Condition: Used: Near Fine Art History & Theory 1623519 Publisher Description: This fourth volume of Professor Meyer Schapiro's Selected Papers contains his most important writings - some well-known and others previously unpublished - on the theory and philosophy of art. Schapiro's highly lucid arguments, graceful prose, and extraordinary erudition guide readers through a rich variety of fields and issues: the roles in society of the artist and art, of the critic and criticism; the relationships between patron and artist, psychoanalysis and art, and philosophy and art. Adapting critical methods from such wide-ranging fields as anthropology, linguistics, philosophy, biology, and other sciences