{"product_id":"deconstructing-art-definite-edition-9781300052265","title":"Deconstructing Art: Definite Edition","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Kam Wen Siu\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Lulu.com\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Lulu.com\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Aesthetics\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eModern aesthetics is in as much a quagmire as modern art is. Since the nineteenth century, there has been no serious attempt at defining beauty, while the great many of theorists focus their at- tention on a concocted concept that is foreign and unnatural to say the least: the aesthetic. Art theory, on the other hand, failed utterly in its fundamental task when it handed the artist and the so-called \"artworld\" a carte blanche -in the form of the institu- tional theory of art- to decide by themselves what art is and is not. This study attempts to fill both niches thus left gaping. The study is the practical application of a method that we have first gleaned in On Names, Ideas, and Super Ideas. The method re- quires that we treat the idea or concept of art as a mental mish- mash that has resulted from an atypical, messy process of abstrac- tion, and recognize the fact that the meaning of the word art can- not be encompassed by a single definition. The only way to de- fine art is to \"break down\" this mental mishmash into \"compo- nent\" ideas that would have resulted from the process of abstrac- tion, had it been typical; and provide a definition for each of such \"component\" ideas. The work is divided into five parts. Parts I and II provide an objective definition of art. Part III provides an objective definition of beauty. Part IV provides \"guidelines\" for judging or appreciating any work of art. And Part V provides a rather personal interpretation of what went on in the arts during the twentieth century.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46386227380375,"sku":"9781300052265","price":1729.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781300052265.webp?v=1768788788","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/deconstructing-art-definite-edition-9781300052265","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}