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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.
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Peter de Bolla is Fellow of King's College at Cambridge University and author of Harold Bloom and The Discourse of the Sublime.
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- PublisherHarvard University Press
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 0674006496
- ISBN 13 9780674006492
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages174
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