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Product Description: Despite its foundational role in the history of philosophy, Platoâs famous argument that art does not have access to truth or knowledge is now rarely examined, in part because recent philosophers have assumed that Platoâs challenge was resolved long ago...read more
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9780226040028 | Univ of Chicago Pr, June 24, 2013, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: Despite its foundational role in the history of philosophy, Platoâs famous argument that art does not have access to truth or knowledge is now rarely examined, in part because recent philosophers have assumed that Platoâs challenge was resolved long ago.
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9780226272634 | Univ of Chicago Pr, February 19, 2015, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Despite its foundational role in the history of philosophy, Platoâs famous argument that art does not have access to truth or knowledge is now rarely examined, in part because recent philosophers have assumed that Platoâs challenge was resolved long ago.
Product Description: This book aims to present trompe-lâÅil painting, which epitomizes the myth of the illusionistic image - an early modern way of thinking about pictures, according to which it is possible to create an image identical to what it represents that at the same time preserves its own pictorial identity...read more
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9783631640524 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, April 3, 2014, cover price $64.95 | About this edition: This book aims to present trompe-lâÅil painting, which epitomizes the myth of the illusionistic image - an early modern way of thinking about pictures, according to which it is possible to create an image identical to what it represents that at the same time preserves its own pictorial identity.
Mimesis is one of the oldest, most fundamental concepts in Western aesthetics. This book offers a new, searching treatment of its long history at the center of theories of representational art: above all, in the highly influential writings of Plato and Aristotle, but also in later Greco-Roman philosophy and criticism, and subsequently in many areas of aesthetic controversy from the Renaissance to the twentieth century. Combining classical scholarship, philosophical analysis, and the history of ideas--and ranging across discussion of poetry, painting, and music--Stephen Halliwell shows with a wealth of detail how mimesis, at all stages of its evolution, has been a more complex, variable concept than its conventional translation of "imitation" can now convey. Far from providing a static model of artistic representation, mimesis has generated many different models of art, encompassing a spectrum of positions from realism to idealism. Under the influence of Platonist and Aristotelian paradigms, mimesis has been a crux of debate between proponents of what Halliwell calls "world-reflecting" and "world-simulating" theories of representation in both the visual and musico-poetic arts. This debate is about not only the fraught relationship between art and reality but also the psychology and ethics of how we experience and are affected by mimetic art. Moving expertly between ancient and modern traditions, Halliwell contends that the history of mimesis hinges on problems that continue to be of urgent concern for contemporary aesthetics.
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9780691048826 | Princeton Univ Pr, July 1, 2002, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: Mimesis is one of the oldest, most fundamental concepts in Western aesthetics.
Paperback:
9780691092584 | Princeton Univ Pr, July 1, 2002, cover price $52.00
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9781400825301 | Princeton Univ Pr, September 2, 2008, cover price $37.00
Product Description: Between life and the art that imitates it is a vague, more shadowy category: images that exist autonomously. Pygmalion’s mythical sculpture, which magnanimous gods endowed with life after he fell in love with it, marks perhaps the first such instance in Western art history of an image that exists on its own terms, rather than simply imitating something (or someone) else...read more
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9780226775210 | Univ of Chicago Pr, June 15, 2008, cover price $53.00 | About this edition: Between life and the art that imitates it is a vague, more shadowy category: images that exist autonomously.
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9780816647484 | Univ of Minnesota Pr, February 5, 2007, cover price $75.00
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9780816647491 | Univ of Minnesota Pr, February 5, 2007, cover price $25.00
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9780415060479 | Routledge, September 1, 1991, cover price $165.00 | About this edition: First published in 1991.
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9780415066273 | Routledge, September 1, 1991, cover price $51.95 | About this edition: First published in 1991.
Miscellaneous:
9780203981450 | Routledge, August 22, 1991, cover price $45.95
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