Why Your Five Year Old Could Not Have Done That
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Why Your Five Year Old Could Not Have Done that
The author examines 100 works of modern art that have attracted public hostility from Cy Twomblys scribbled "Olympia", Jean-Michel Basquiats "LNAPRK", to the careless mess of Tracey Emins "My Bed". In this title, the author gives you an understanding of the ways in which modern art differs from the realistic works of earlier centuries.
A New Approach to the Arts
This book considers how art actually works, how the various art forms connect with the world of ordinary human experience. Many books approach the subject from the top down, through topics such as the nature of beauty, the meaning of art, aesthetic judgement, and so on. The present book examines the subject from the ground up, so to speak, showing how the creation and appreciation of art spring from innate human needs and capacities. What we call ‘the arts’ emerge organically from the habitual activities through which human beings represent the world to themselves and others. Artistic representation, always more than mere imitation, is a reaching for the spirit of a subject, a revealing of the implicit, a refreshing of the overly familiar. A key idea is that art is representation through convention – that artistic conventions, far from inhibiting the work of the artist, are vital to artistic creativity.
Thinking of Questions
This is not a conventional book. It is designed to stimulate and challenge all people who are curious to find out about the world they inhabit and their place within it. It does this by suggesting questions and lines of questioning on a wide range of topics. The book does not provide answers or model arguments but prompts people to create their own questions and a reading log or journal. To this end, almost all questions have a list of books or articles to provide a starter for stimulating further reading. Once you start, you will be hooked! Never stop questioning.