The Theory of The Theory of the Arts
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9687644 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Roger A Shiner (0000-0003-0726-5629, University of Alberta, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1986 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 533-546 |
| Publication date | 1986-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Dialogue (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0012-2173 • E-ISSN: 1759-0949 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s001221730002093x |
| OpenAlex | W2115851584 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 2 |
One stands in awe of this book, and of its display of erudition, acumen, wit, elegance, taste, and uninhibited failure to suffer fools gladly. Michael Tanner in lectures at Cambridge in 1961 remarked of the then recently published Aesthetics by Monroe Beardsley that in a sense one did not need any other book in aesthetics. Now, one will be sorely tempted to say exactly the same thing about TTTA . The claim would in either case be a mistake. To understand, however, the reason why in either case the claim would be a mistake, and to understand why it would in the case of Sparshott's book be a mistake for a reason very different from that for which it would in the case of Beardsley's book be a mistake, will be to understand Sparshott's consummate and unrepeata-ble achievement in TTTA . I shall return to this topic explicitly at the end of this review, though implicitly I shall never leave it
Aesthetics · Art · Elegance · Epistemology · Mistake · Political science · Taste · The arts · Visual arts · Aesthetic Perception and Analysis · Art History and Market Analysis · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Visual Culture and Art Theory
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |