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What is “Art”? It’s widely accepted that art serves an important function in society. But the concept falls under such an absurdly large umbrella and can manifest in so many different ways. Art can be self indulgent, goofy, serious, altruistic, evil, or expressive, or any number of other things. But how can it truly make lasting, positive change? In Why Art?, acclaimed graphic novelist Eleanor Davis (How To Be Happy) unpacks some of these concepts in ways both critical and positive, in an attempt to illuminate the highest possible potential an artwork might hope to achieve. A work of art unto itself, Davis leavens her exploration with a sense of humor and a thirst for challenging preconceptions of art worthy of Magritte, instantly drawing the reader in as a willing accomplice in her quest.

Art appreciation

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How do people make sense of works of art? And how do they write to make others see the same way? There are many guides to looking at art, histories of art history and art criticism, and accounts of various 'theories' and 'methods', but this book offers something very unlike the normal search for difference and division: it examines the general and largely unspoken norms shared by interpreters of many kinds. Ranging widely, though taking writing within the Western tradition of art history as its primary focus, Interpreting Art highlights the norms, premises, and patterns that tend to guide interpretation along the way. Why, for example, is the concept of artistic 'intention' at once so reviled and yet so hard to let go of? What does it really involve when an interpretation appeals to an artwork's 'reception'? How can 'context' be used by some to keep things under control and by others to make the interpretation of art seem limitless? And how is it that artworks only seem to grow in complexity over time? Interpreting Art reveals subtle features of art writing central to the often unnoticed interpretative practices through which we understand works of art. In doing so, the book also sheds light on possible alternatives, pointing to how writers on art might choose to operate differently in the future.

Art appreciation.

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Qu'est-ce que les films d'Asghar Farhadi racontent de la société iranienne ? Quelle image de l'Iran s'est construite à travers le cinéma d'Abbas Kiarostami?? Quelles sont les caractéristiques des films iraniens projetés en France?? En partant de l'hypothèse forte que la présence des cinémas extra-occidentaux en Europe répond plus aux attentes et aux modalités des lieux de diffusion qu'à la réalité des pays producteurs, ce livre retrace l'histoire du cinéma iranien en France, de 1950 à aujourd'hui, en interrogeant les représentations du "national" iranien construites dans l'espace français.

Cinéma --- Appréciation.

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Music appreciation.