Sketches of Landscapes

1st Edition. 2002. Edited with commentaries by Enrique Martínez Celaya. 402 pages. Softcover.

(Out of Print)

Sketches of Landscapes (Readings on the Philosophy of Art) although tailored for students, contains a selection of essays, fragments and discussions that could be of use to anyone interested in the conceptual and aesthetic questions arising from the practice of art. Some of these readings are central to most discussions of art and aesthetics, while others are obscure and seldom referenced but valuable nonetheless.

This book couples the writings of Plato, Aristotle, Kant, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Santayana, Dewey, Heidegger, Wittgenstein, Walter Benjamin, Jose Ortega y Gasset, George Steiner, Ernst Gombrich, Robert Rosenblum, Jürgen Habermas, Robert Hughes, Clement Greenberg,

Daniel A. Siedell, Les Manovich, Craig Owens, Julian Stallabrass, Donald Kuspit, Dave Hickey, Hilton Kramer, John Berger, Leo Tolstoy, Gerhard Richter, Frances Colpitt, Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe, Regina Cornwell, Jerry Saltz, Andy Warhol, Lucian Freud and Marcel Duchamp with expansive commentaries.

 

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