Art and Emotion: The Aesthetics of E.P. Papanoutsos (New Studies in Aesthetics) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0820408662 ISBN 13: 9780820408668

Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers, 1989

Synopsis

Papanoutsos' philosophy of art revolves around the phenomenon of the aesthetic experience. The aesthetic experience culminates in what he calls the aesthetic emotion. Through its form and its inherent meaning, a work of art raises the mundane experiences and the common passions of artist and appreciator to a qualitatively different plane. On this plane ordinary passions are cleansed and enriched. The aesthetic emotion is this state of purified, intensified and uplifted affectivity.

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Language Notes:

Text: English, Greek (translation)

Review:

«E.P. Papanoutsos' contributions to Philosophy of Art and Aesthetics brought him international recognition as one of the ranking European thinkers of our times. His ideas on the subject of art have influenced deeply literary criticism and cultural theory in Greece. Professor N. Georgopoulos' impressive Introduction to this superb anthology, representative of Papanoutsos' aesthetic writings, extending from tragedy to contemporary art, is done with the finest of scholarship and the sensitivity of expert understanding.» (John P. Anton, University of South Florida)

About this edition

• Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0820408662
• ISBN 13: 9780820408668
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 223
• Editor: Prof. N. Georgopoulos