Routledge Companion to the Philosophies of Painting and Sculpture

<p>Comprising 45 chapters written especially for this volume by an international team of leading experts <i>The Routledge Companion to the Philosophies of Painting and Sculpture </i>is the first handbook of its kind. The editors have organized the chapters across eight broader sections:</p><ul> <li>Artforms</li> <li>History</li> <li>Questions of form style and address</li> <li>Art and science</li> <li>Comparisons among the arts</li> <li>Questions of value</li> <li>Philosophers of art</li> <li>Institutional questions</li> </ul><p>Individual topics include art and cognitive science evolutionary origins of art art and perception pictorial realism artistic taste style issues of race and gender art and religion art and philosophy and the end of art. The work of selected philosophers is also discussed including Diderot Hegel Ruskin Gombrich Goodman Wollheim and Danto. With an introduction from the editors and comprehensively indexed <i>The Routledge Companion to the Philosophies of Painting and Sculpture </i>serves as a point of entry to the subject for a broad range of students as well as an up-to-date reference for scholars in the field.</p>