philosophy of art

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A colleague in the art department had suggested that if she was going to teach a course about the philosophy of art, she should start making it herself.

From Washington Post • Nov. 16, 2021

The central tenet in Cage’s philosophy of art — and, for that matter, of life — is the essential need to pay attention.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 31, 2020

What’s unusual about this book is its interest in the philosophy of art, carefully reviewing the central questions that philosophers have long dealt with.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 6, 2018

They were inspired by a William Morris stained glass window and the Arts and Crafts philosophy of "art for all".

From BBC • Jul. 6, 2012

Poe's philosophy of art, as discovered in his essays and his creative work, is purely Latin and, as such, incomprehensible and even naughty to the Saxon mind.

From Books and Persons Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911 by Bennett, Arnold