Comprising 45 chapters, written especially for this volume by an international team of leading experts,
The Routledge Companion to the Philosophies of Painting and Sculpture
is the first handbook of its kind. The editors have organized the chapters across eight broader sections:
Artforms
History
Questions of form, style, and address
Art and science
Comparisons among the arts
Questions of value
Philosophers of art
Institutional questions
Individual topics include art and cognitive science, evolutionary origins of art, art and perception, pictorial realism, artistic taste, style, issues of race and gender, art and religion, art and philosophy, and the end of art. The work of selected philosophers is also discussed, including Diderot, Hegel, Ruskin, Gombrich, Goodman, Wollheim, and Danto. With an introduction from the editors and comprehensively indexed,
serves as a point of entry to the subject for a broad range of students as well as an up-to-date reference for scholars in the field.