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But Is It Art?: An Introduction to Art Theory (Paperback)
by Cynthia Freeland (Author)
From Publishers Weekly
A survey of everything from aesthetic theory to digital imaging,
and of everyone from Goya to Damien Hirst, is packed into seven
fast-break chapters here.
Freeland (The Naked and the Undead), a philosophy professor at the
University of Houston, is familiar enough with the impenetrable
artspeak and rhetoric surrounding such issues as identity
politics, censorship and public funding not to be intimidated by
them; her cut-to-the-chase approach to such critical minefields as
the use of bodily fluids in art produces clear and often pungent
analyses.
Chapters on gender, money and the marketplace, and on the uses and
abuses of "primitive" motifs in contemporary art making are models
of judicious clarity. And the chapters on the science of
perception and the digital revolution display Freeland's equal
ease with the vocabularies of scientific research.
She can also be tart in her thumb-nail assessments of works (some
shown in eight color and 24 b&w plates): '80s painter and
filmmaker David Salle "relies on numbingly familiar imagery"; the
sainted political artist Hans Haacke is "preachy and boring." But
her interest is at all times on explicating issues rather than on
rendering facile judgments. If the book suffers from trying to do
too much in too small a space, its ambition and usefulness amply
justify Freeland's project on its own terms.
Review
"I know of no work that moves so swiftly and with so sure a
footing through the battle zones of art and society
today."--Arthur C. Danto
"Profoundly refreshing and satisfying.... Freeland's energetic and
engaging voice breezily guides the reader, while employing an
astonishing array of examples to illuminate and activate her
explications."--Don Bacigalupi, Director, San Diego Museum of Art
"A vibrant study of a complex and contentious field of artistic
endeavor and enquiry.... Lucid and thought-provoking."--Murray
Smith, University of Kent
"Freeland provides a unique and inclusive view of the past by
discussing it from the vantage point of contemporary art."--Lucy
R. Lippard, author of Mixed Blessings: New Art in a Multicultural
America
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