TY - BOOK ID - 98871047 TI - Sophistry and Twentieth-Century Art AU - Gordon, Haim AU - Gordon, Rivca PY - 2002 SN - 9042015292 9004496084 PB - Leiden; Boston : BRILL, DB - UniCat KW - Aesthetics, Modern KW - Art KW - Truth (Aesthetics) KW - Philosophy. KW - Aesthetics KW - Beautiful, The KW - Beauty KW - Art and philosophy KW - Analysis, interpretation, appreciation KW - History UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:98871047 AB - This book deals with a rejection of the widespread fakeries that have emerged in twentieth-century art, which we call by their Platonic name, sophistry. The book also presents brief descriptions of some of the ideas of Martin Heidegger and Nicolas Berdyaev as to what constitutes a beautiful work of art, and how an authentic relation to the beauty in a work of art enhances human existence. ER -