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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. ** Review “In this learned, original, important, and always lively new study, Henry Staten moves today's heated and often sterile debate about aesthetic form to a new place-a place that is also (and in the best sense), an old place, newly inhabited. Staten rethinks

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Author

Henry Staten; ProQuest (Firm)

Publisher

Bloomsbury Academic; Bloomsbury

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9781472592910

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Art, Philosophy, Arts