Art as Performance

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. <br /> <ul> <li style=”list-style: none”><br /> </li> <li>Elaborates and defends a broad conceptual framework for thinking about the arts.<br /> </li> <li>Offers a provocative view about the kinds of things that artworks are and how they are to be understood.<br /> </li> <li>Reveals important continuities and discontinuities between traditional and modern art.<br /> </li> <li>Highlights core topics in aesthetics and art theory, including traditional theories about the nature of art, aesthetic appreciation, artistic intentions, performance, and artistic meaning.</li> </ul>