American Aesthetics : Theory and Practice

State University of New York Press

American AestheticsTheory and Practice\nAuthor(s): Walter B. Gulick, Gary Slater\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: State University of New York Press, United States\nImprint: State University of New York Press\nISBN-13: 9781438478586, 978-1438478586\nSynopsis\nProposes a distinctly American approach to aesthetic judgment and practice.\n\nAlthough there are distinctly American artists-Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, Grandma Moses, Thomas Hart Benton, and Andy Warhol, for example-very little attention has been devoted to formulating any distinctively American characteristics of aesthetic judgment and practice. This volume takes a step in this direction, presenting an introductory essay on the possibility of such a distinctly American tradition, and a collection of essays exploring particular examples from a variety of angles. Some of the essays in this collection extend pragmatist and process insights about the important place aesthetics has in molding and assessing experience. Other essay.