This book offers a new approach to our understanding of art as a form of knowledge. In opposition to the ideas of mimesis that we find in Aristotle’s Poetics and Plato’s Republic, it presents a theory of art as the portrayal of reflective life in action.
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This book offers a new approach to our understanding of art as a form of knowledge. In opposition to the ideas of mimesis that we find in Aristotle’s Poetics and Plato’s Republic, it presents a theory of art as the portrayal of reflective life in action. This theory is demonstrated by reference to works by Sophocles, Shakespeare, Bach, Beethoven, Turner and Cézanne. A new approach, combined with sensitivity to the particular characteristics of different art forms, generates an original view of Oedipus, the Sonnets of Shakespeare, the Prelude and Fugue number 22 from The Well-Tempered Clavier (Book 1), Beethoven’s String Quartet in A minor opus 132 and a number of landscape paintings. Interpretations of twenty-seven works of art explore the meaning and significance of each complete work as a representation of life. Reflective life is defined as a life that is valued in itself, and the analysis of art in this book shows how the portrayal of reflective life in action reveals the interconnection between inner experience, the form of reflective life, and the life-defining forms of a community.
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