We live in a world dominated by mass art. Movies, TV, pulp literature, comics, rock music - both broadcast and recorded - surround us everywhere in the industrialized world and beyond. However, despite the fact that for the majority mass art supplies the primary source of aesthetic experience, the area has been neglected entirely by analytic philosophers of art. In A Philosophy of Mass Art, Noel Carroll, a leading figure in the field of aesthetic philosophy, attempts to address this lacuna. He shows why philosophers have previously resisted and/or misunderstood mass art and he develops frameworks for understanding the relation of mass art to the emotions, morality, and ideology; discussing the accounts of such theorists in the field as Collingwood, Adorno, Benjamin, McCluhan, and Fiske. Mixing conceptual analysis with many vivid examples, the author proposes the first significant attempt at a philosophy of mass art in the analytical tradition, concluding there are strong grounds for approaching mass art in the same fashion as high art.
0 有用 穆木木 2023-12-01 09:59:19 四川
Carroll典型的“清道夫”式的方法论:既然我们已经有了那么多关于艺术的谬见,那么(分析)哲学的任务就是将之扫除。大众艺术作为一个专门的问题并没有被延续,后继的讨论更倾向于化整为零,去讨论摇滚、漫画或电影。这在多大程度上仰赖Carroll的工作呢?恐怕没有想象中多……