Arnold Berleant: Art and Engagement

<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" vlink="#CC0000" alink="#CC0000"><center><hr width="350" size="1" align="center" noshade>A new aesthetic theory based on aesthetic perception and participation with the arts<hr width="350" size="1" align="center" noshade><p><a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/ChicagoBook.aspx?ISBN=9780877227977&&PRESS=temple" target="_top">Buy this book!</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">View Cart</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">Check Out</a></p><p><img src="606_reg.gif" height=200 border=1 vspace=4></p></center><h1>Art and Engagement</h1> <h3>Arnold Berleant</h3> <P>cloth 0-87722-797-7 $72.50, Apr 91, <FONT COLOR=#990033>Out of Stock Unavailable</FONT> <br>paper 1-56639-084-2 $36.95, Mar 93, <FONT COLOR=#990033>Available</FONT> <br>Electronic Book 1-43990-542-8 $36.95 <FONT COLOR=#990033>Out of Stock Unavailable</FONT> <BR> 288 pp 6x9 12 figures </P><BLOCKQUOTE><I>"Berleant has written the primer for a new aesthetics.... Readers will be delighted by the hundreds of thoughtful and pertinent examples form neolithic to contemporary and from non-Western as well as Western sources.... [Y]ou cannot help but admire the breadth of research and intellectual courage required to bring such a big book to light."</I> <br>&#151<b><I>The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism</I></b><I></I></BLOCKQUOTE> <p>In this book Arnold Berleant develops a bold alternative to the eighteenth-century aesthetic of disinterestedness. Centering on the notion of participatory engagement in the appreciation of art, he explores its appearance in art and in aesthetic perception, especially during the past century. Aesthetic engagement becomes a key, both on historical and theoretical grounds, to making intelligible our experiences with both contemporary and classical arts. In place of the traditional aesthetic that enjoins the appreciator to adopt a contemplative attitude, distancing the art object in order to ensure its removal from practical uses, <I>Art and Engagement</I> examines the ways in which art entices us into intimate participation in its workings. <p>Beginning with the historical and theoretical underpinnings of the idea of engagement, Berleant focuses on how engagement works as a force in different arts. Successive chapters pursue its influence in landscape painting, architecture and environmental design, literature, music, dance, and film. <p><I>Art and Engagement</I> argues forcefully for the originality and power of aesthetic perception. Demolishing the conceptual barriers erected by the Western world�s limiting tradition, the book discloses the condition of engagement that has always been present when our aesthetic encounters have been most effective and suggests a new direction for aesthetic inquiry. <BR> <h2>Reviews</h2> <p><I>"</I>Art and Engagement<I> presents a forceful argument for the originality and power of aesthetic perception. Demolishing the conceptual barriers erected by limiting Western traditions, the book discloses the condition of engagement involved in our most effective aesthetic encounters and suggests a new direction for aesthetic inquiry."</I> <br>&#151<b><I>American Society for Aesthetics Newsletter</I></b> <p><I>"[Berleant] brings his full repertoire of knowledge to bear on this most interesting of problems: just how, precisely, do we derive aesthetic reaction from confrontation with a work of art? ...This is a closely studied argument beginning with theoretical studies into the idea of 'engagement'...appropriate for those interested in its application to aesthetic inquiry."</I> <br>&#151<b><I>Art Times</I></b> <BR> <h2>Contents</h2><P> <p>Illustrations <br>Preface <br>Acknowledgments <br>Introduction <p><b>Part I: Aesthetics and Experience</b> <br>1. Experience and Theory in Aesthetics <br>2. The Unity of Aesthetic Experience <p><b>Part II: Engagement in the Arts</b> <br>3. The Viewer in the Landscape <br>4. Architecture as Environmental Design <br>5. The Reader's Word <br>6. Musical Generation <br>7. Dance as Performance <p><b>Part III: Art and Reality</b> <br>8. Cinematic Reality <br>9. The Realities of Art <br>10. Epilogue: Art and the End of Aesthetics <p>Notes <br>Index </P><BR> <H2>About the Author(s)</H2> <table><tr><td valign="top"><img src="/tempress/authors/606_au.gif" height="90" width="75"></td><td width="100%" valign="middle"><p><b>Arnold Berleant</b> is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Long Island University and the author of <I><A HREF="765_reg.html" TARGET="_top">Aesthetics of Environment</A></I> (Temple).</P></td></tr></table> <BR><H2>Subject Categories</H2> <p><A HREF="/tempress/philosophy.html" TARGET="_top">Philosophy and Ethics</a> </p> <p align="center"><a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/ChicagoBook.aspx?ISBN=9780877227977&&PRESS=temple" target="_top">Buy this book!</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">View Cart</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">Check Out</a></p><p><font face="Arial" size="1"><a href="copyright.html" onMouseOver="window.status='Web Copyright Policy';return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''" title="Web Copyright Policy">©</a> 2015 <a href="http://www.temple.edu" target="new" onMouseOver="window.status='Link to Temple University home page';return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''" title="Link to Temple University home page">Temple University</a>. 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