基本説明
New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2001. "An extraordinary description of and argument for the uniqueness of the aesthetic experience... de Bolla has produced a ...text, utterly free of sentimentality or cant, true, direct, original." - Edward W. Said.
Full Description
In the face of a great work of art, we so often stand mute, struck dumb. Is this a function - perhaps the first and foremost - of aesthetic experience? Or do we lack the words to say what we feel? Countering contemporary assumptions that art is valued only according to taste or ideology, Peter de Bolla gives a voice - and vocabulary - to the wonder art can inspire. Working toward a better understanding of what it is to be profoundly moved by a work of art, he forces us to reconsider the importance of art works and the singular nature and value of our experience of them. In many ways a "practical aesthetics," "Art Matters" proceeds by way of example. Through chapters attending to three works of art - Barnett Newman's painting Vir Heroicus Sublimis, pianist Glenn Gould's second recording of Bach's Goldberg Variations, and William Wordsworth's poem "We Are Seven" - de Bolla plots a personal history of aesthetic experience that opens up the general forms of art appreciation. His book invites us to a closer encounter with art, and to a deeper appreciation and clearer expression of what such an encounter might hold.
Contents
1. Introduction: Aesthetic Experience 2. Serenity: Barnett Newman's Vir Heroicus Sublimis 3. Clarity: Glenn Gould's Goldberg (1981) 4. Equanimity: Wordsworth's We Are Seven 5. Fragility: The Architecture of Wonder
