Discussions on Art and Aesthetics

What is art? What makes paintings, poems beautiful, sublime, or repulsive? Is music representational or abstract? Is it possible to learn things from literature, films, or opera? Why do people debate taste?

In Conversations on Art and Aesthetics, Hans Maes discusses these and similar important questions of aesthetics with ten of the world’s leading philosophers of art: Noël Carroll, Gregory Currie, Arthur C. Danto, Cynthia Freeland, Paul Guyer, Carolyn Korsmeyer, Jerrold Levinson, Jenefer Robinson, Roger Scruton, and Kendall Walton.

These direct, generous, and powerful verbal exchanges offer an understandable narrative of the thinkers' main ideas and intellectual development. They also allow the reader to gain new insights and find more detailed explanations regarding contemporary issues in the philosophy of art.

Conversations on Art and Aesthetics contains information that will appeal to anyone with a philosophical interest in art and aesthetics.