{"product_id":"art-as-performance-by-dave-davies-9781405116671","title":"Art as Performance","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this wide-ranging and challenging book, David Davies elaborates and defends a broad conceptual framework for thinking about the arts that reveals important continuities and discontinuities between traditional and modern art, and between different artistic disciplines. The centerpiece is a novel and provocative view about the kinds of things that artworks are, with important consequences for how they are to be understood.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBeginning with a lively discussion of the difficulties that audiences experience in their attempts to grasp and appreciate much modern and contemporary art, Davies continues with illuminating considerations of important and influential works from a broad range of artistic media—including painting, music, literature, film, performance, and dance—steadily mounting a bold and persuasive theory of the arts which construes artworks as performances.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReplete with examples drawn from both modern and traditional art, \u003cem\u003eArt as Performance\u003c\/em\u003e highlights core topics in aesthetics and art theory, including traditional theories about the nature of art, aesthetic appreciation, artistic intentions, performance, and artistic meaning.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47000542511340,"sku":"9781405116671","price":90.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/7363193482688.jpg?v=1763283044","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/art-as-performance-by-dave-davies-9781405116671","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}