Bloomsbury Academic Philosophy and Painting: Ancient, Modern, Contemporary (Bloomsbury Aesthetics)

Can philosophy reveal something about painting that might otherwise remain hidden or obscure? Aesthetics and Painting introduces and opens up current debates and ideas in the aesthetics of painting. At its core is an investigation of the complex relationship between what a painting depicts and the means by which it is depicted which covers: How and why painting may be distinguished from other art forms The relationship between the painted surface and the depicted subject The "rules of representation" specific to painting The most recent technological and aesthetic developments and their implications Now updated, this second edition examines recent developments in art practice with added discussions of artists Katharina Grosse and Angela de la Cruz and topics including originality in the digital age. Featuring updates to the references, bibliography and chapter and a new chapter on contemporary painting providing a philosophically rigorous but non-conservative defence of the relevance of painting in the twenty-first century, Aesthetics and Painting remains highly readable throughout. For anyone interested in the major ideas in art and philosophy and painting as an art form, this is an ideal introduction.