Dominic McIver Lopes

Les Arts et les Images se veut une introduction aux principaux terrains d'investigation de Dominic McIver Lopes, philosophe canadien contemporain, figure incontournable de l'esthétique et de la philosophie de l'art en langue anglaise au cours des... Lire la suite

No values figure as pervasively and intimately in our lives as beauty and other aesthetic values. They animate the arts, as well as design, fashion, food, and entertainment. They orient us upon the natural world. And we even find them in the deepest... Lire la suite

Philosophers say what art is and then scientists and then other scholars study how we are equipped, cognitively and socially, to make art and appreciate it. This time-honoured approach will not work. Recent science reveals that we have poor... Lire la suite

Four Arts of Photography explores the history of photography through the lens of philosophy and proposes a new scholarly understanding of the art form for the 21st century. Re-examines the history of art photography through four major photographic... Lire la suite

Dominic McIver Lopes offre ici la meilleure introduction au moment théorique qui a occupé la philosophie de l’art ces dernières décennies : la recherche d’une définition philosophique de l’art. Il en situe l’origine, non dans les limbes d’un... Lire la suite

Contrast the glittering palette used to decorate rickshaws on the streets of Mumbai, the phlegmatic angst of Nordic noir, the taut ovoids of Kwakwaka'wakw carving, or the kawaii invasion of parts of Tokyo. The diversity of the aesthetic ecosystem... Lire la suite

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license. It is free to read at Oxford Academic and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Wherever on the globe anyone sets foot, they... Lire la suite