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What Artistry Can Do: Essays on Art and Beauty(Refractions)


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This collection of 12 essays by the Belgian philosopher and theorist Bart Verschaffel addresses the meaning and relevance of art today. Written over the course of his career, they cover a rich and inventive range of topics: from mockery and laughter to the artwork as a 'gift', and from caricature to splendour. This is the first synoptic collection of Verschaffel's work, with many of the essays translated into English for the first time.



Table of Contents:
Preface Introduction: Art as a Form of Understanding First Ideas on Art, Being Moved and Criticism Critical?Art What Art Can Do (Malpertuis by Jean Ray) On the Pleasure of Finding What Is Hidden (With Hidden Noise by Marcel Duchamp) Memoria: Memory Work and the ‘Conversation of Mankind’ Aspects of Artistry On Laughter, Opinions and Artistic Freedom Notes on the Work of Art as a Gift Being an Artist Is an Art in Itself: On the ‘First Work’ and the Notion of ‘Oeuvre’ Double-speak; Elementary Aesthetics On Splendour and Modern Beauty Fatal Truths: Notes on the Beauty Experience On the Aesthetic Gaze, Beauty and the Two Sources of Ugliness

About the Author :
Bart Verschaffel is a philosopher and Professor of Theory of Architecture and Architectural Criticism at Ghent University in Belgium. He has published widely in the fields of Architectural Theory, Aesthetics, Visual Arts and Philosophy of Culture. In addition, he has curated exhibitions, authored essays and written documentary film scripts on artists such as Giambattista Piranesi, Anthony Gormley and Thierry De Cordier. His published books include What Is Real? What Is True? Picturing Figures and Faces (A&S/books, 2021), Mock Humanity! Two Essays on James Ensor’s Grotesques (A&S/Books-Plantin, 2018). He serves as director of the VANDENHOVE Centre for Architecture and Art at Ghent University, where he oversees the Charles Vandenhove art collection.

Review :
An anthology of essays by one of Belgium’s most original art theorists. As if looking at society with that same generous mockery that characterized Flemish painters from Bruegel all the way to Ensor, Bart Verschaffel’s prose follows the meandering and often contradictory movements of visual desire. Reflective, combative, and engagingly opinionated, this volume of essays by Bart Verschaffel is motivated by a deep commitment to art, to the importance of its distinctiveness from other forms of cultural production, and to what it means to think and write about it. The author’s elegant and supple writing navigates his materials in ways that are unfailingly persuasive and often surprising, and that – among much else – build a case for an idea that might be seen as both the book’s leitmotif and own self-description: that of artistry as a kind of critical memory work.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781474494908
  • Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Edinburgh University Press
  • Height: 210 mm
  • No of Pages: 224
  • Returnable: Y
  • Series Title: Refractions
  • Width: 210 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1474494900
  • Publisher Date: 07 Jul 2022
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: Essays on Art and Beauty


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