
Publication details
Publisher: Springer
Place: Berlin
Year: 2007
Pages: 455-458
Series: Continental Philosophy Review
Full citation:
, "A. Paskow, The paradoxes of art" Continental Philosophy Review 40 (4), 2007, pp. 455-458
Abstract
Though the title suggests a phenomenological account of art and, in fact, has some important and insightful things to say about art, this work focuses primarily on the ontological status of “fictional beings” and the question of “representation” in art and in experience more generally. Paskow makes a case for a “realist” aesthetic. The first part of the book, which provides examples from literature and painting, culminates in a discussion of why fictional beings can be important to us. The second part of the book is almost exclusively devoted to a consideration of painting. It illustrates how a realist aesthetic can be brought to bear on painting and develops this aesthetic in relation to this particular art form. Throughout Paskow is concerned not only with what we should take art to be, but why it should matter to us.
Publication details
Publisher: Springer
Place: Berlin
Year: 2007
Pages: 455-458
Series: Continental Philosophy Review
Full citation:
, "A. Paskow, The paradoxes of art" Continental Philosophy Review 40 (4), 2007, pp. 455-458