Pleasure and the arts : enjoying literature, painting, and music / Christopher Butler.

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Butler, Christopher, 1940- [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2005Description: 1 online resource : color illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780191534126
0191534129
9781423753278
1423753275
9780191516092
0191516090
1280757795
9781280757792
6610757798
9786610757794
9780199272488
0199272484
1282328190
9781282328198
9786612328190
6612328193

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Pleasure and the arts.DDC classification:

701.17 23

LOC classification:

BH39 .B88 2005

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Contents:

List of Illustrations; Introduction; 1. Jokes, Poems, Understanding; 2. Emotions and Narrative; 3. Beyond Words: Sensation; 4. Beyond Words: Enjoying Abstractions; 5. Beyond Words: Appreciation, Technique, and Form; 6. Specificity, Fantasy, and Critique; Appendix on Beauty; Picture Credits; Index.

Summary: How do the arts give us pleasure? Covering a very wide range of artistic works, from Auden to David Lynch, Rembrandt to Edward Weston, and Richard Strauss to Keith Jarrett, Butler offers us an explanation of our enjoyable emotional engagements with literature, music, and painting. Pleasurable in its own right, Pleasure and the Arts presents a sparkling explanation of the enduring interest of artistic expression. - ;How do the arts give us pleasure? Covering a very wide range of artistic works, from Auden to David Lynch, Rembrandt to Edward Weston, and Richard Strauss to Keith Jarrett, Pleasure.

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Originally published: 2004.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

How do the arts give us pleasure? Covering a very wide range of artistic works, from Auden to David Lynch, Rembrandt to Edward Weston, and Richard Strauss to Keith Jarrett, Butler offers us an explanation of our enjoyable emotional engagements with literature, music, and painting. Pleasurable in its own right, Pleasure and the Arts presents a sparkling explanation of the enduring interest of artistic expression. - ;How do the arts give us pleasure? Covering a very wide range of artistic works, from Auden to David Lynch, Rembrandt to Edward Weston, and Richard Strauss to Keith Jarrett, Pleasure.

English.

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