The Routledge Companion to the Philosophies of Painting and Sculpture

Noël Carroll · Jonathan Gilmore

Jun 2023 · Taylor & Francis

About this ebook

Comprising 45 chapters, written especially for this volume by an international team of leading experts, The Routledge Companion to the Philosophies of Painting and Sculpture is the first handbook of its kind. The editors have organized the chapters across eight broader sections:

• Artforms
• History
• Questions of form, style, and address
• Art and science
• Comparisons among the arts
• Questions of value
• Philosophers of art
• Institutional questions

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, The Routledge Companion to the Philosophies of Painting and Sculpture 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.

About the author

Noël Carroll is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the Graduate Center, CUNY, the author of 19 books, editor or coeditor of eight volumes, a former journalist, and the author of five documentaries.

Jonathan Gilmore is Professor of Philosophy at the Graduate Center and Baruch College, CUNY. He is coeditor of the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism. His most recent book is Apt Imaginings: Feelings for Fictions and Other Creatures of the Mind (2020), which was awarded the 2021 Outstanding Monograph Prize by the American Society for Aesthetics.