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Summary:

Art's Emotions is a reflective, thought-provoking exploration of the significance that experiencing emotion through art has upon our lives. Damien Freeman reviews and evaluates three traditional approaches to understanding artistic expression and moves on to develop a new theory of emotion that resolves key questions in aesthetics. In a novel philosophical project, Freeman also establishes the ethical importance of art in nurturing humans and helping them flourish. --amazon.com.

Table of Contents:

• Machine generated contents note: 1. emotional economy
• 2. Perception of emotion in the world
• 3. varieties of emotional experience
• 4. Art and the plenary experience of emotion
• 5. value of art and the practice of life.

Author/Creator:

Freeman, Damien

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Art's emotions: ethics, expression and aesthetic experience [by Freeman, D.]

Subjects:

Arts — Psychological aspects

Emotions in art

Art and morals

Aesthetics — Psychological aspects

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-205) and index.
Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.
Description based on print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Call Numbers:

NX165 .F74 2012

ISBNs:

9781317547563 (electronic bk.)
131754756X (electronic bk.)
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0773540059 (bound) [Invalid]
9780773540064 (pbk.) [Invalid]
0773540067 (pbk.) [Invalid]
1844655113 [Invalid]
9781844655113 [Invalid]
1844655121 [Invalid]
9781844655120 [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

897436787

Other Control Numbers:

840809 (source: EbpS)
[Unknown Type]: ybp12061993