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BL
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| Record Number
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974876
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b729246
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| Main Entry
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Davies, David.
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| Title & Author
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Art as Performance.
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| Publication Statement
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Oxford :: John Wiley & Sons,, 2007.
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1 online resource (292 pages)
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| ISBN
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1405143649
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: 9781405143646
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| Contents
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Preface; chapter one: Introduction; 1.1 Challenges to Aesthetic Empiricism; 1.2 Methodological Interlude: The "Pragmatic Constraint" on the Ontology of Art; chapter two: Aesthetic Empiricism and the Philosophy of Art; 2.1 Aesthetic Empiricism; 2.2 Indirect Arguments Against Aesthetic Empiricism; 2.3 Direct Arguments Against Aesthetic Empiricism; 2.4 Drawing Ontological Conclusions from the Counter-Empiricist Arguments; chapter three: The Fine Structure of the Focus of Appreciation; 3.1 The Structure of the Focus of Appreciation; 3.2 Performance and Appreciation; 3.3 Ontology After Empiricism.
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| Abstract
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In this richly argued and provocative book, David Davies elaborates and defends a broad conceptual framework for thinking about the arts that reveals important continuities and discontinuities between traditional and modern art, and between different artistic disciplines.
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Aesthetics.
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Art-- Philosophy.
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Aesthetics.
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Art.
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Aesthetics.
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Art-- Philosophy.
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| Dewey Classification
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111/.85701.1
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| LC Classification
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BH39.D38 2004BH39 .D38 2004eb
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