Techne Theory
A New Language for Art
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Word Count
49,750 words, Guess
Page Count
199 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-139781472592897
- ISBN-101472592891
- OCLC Control Number1079157692
- Better World Books9781472592897
- Open LibraryOL36733741M
Classifications
- LCCN66
- LCCN70 .S73 2019
Description
"Only since the Romantic period has art been understood in terms of an ineffable aesthetic quality of things like poems, paintings, and sculptures, and the art-maker as endowed with an inexplicable power of creation. From the Greeks to the 18th century, art was conceived as techne--the skill and know-how by which things and states of affairs are ordered. Techne Theory shows how to use this concept to cut through the Romantic notion of art as a kind of magic by returning to the original sense of art as techne, the standpoint of the person who actually knows how to make a work of art. Understood as techne, art-making, like all other cultural accomplishments, is a form of work performed by an artisan who has inherited the know-how of previous generations of artisans. Along the way, Techne Theory cuts through the humanist-structuralist impasse over the question of artistic agency and explains what 'form' really means."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
Description
Only since the Romantic period has art been understood in terms of an ineffable aesthetic quality of things like poems, paintings, and sculptures, and the art-maker as endowed with an inexplicable power of creation. From the Greeks to the eighteenth-century, art was conceived as techne - the skill and know-how by which things and states of affairs are ordered. This book shows how to use this concept to cut through the Romantic notion of art as a kind of magic by returning to the original sense of art as techne, the standpoint of the person who actually knows how to make a work of art. Understood as techne, art-making, like all other cultural accomplishments, is a form of work performed by an artisan who has inherited the know-how of previous generations of artisans. Along the way, this book cuts through the humanist-structuralist impasse over the question of artistic agency.
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