An Introduction to the Philosophy of Art
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CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
2003
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loginWho needs a theory of art?
For almost all people in almost all cultures, either the fact (as in dance)or the product (as in painting) of some commanding performance thatis both somehow significant and yet absorbing in its own right (ratherthan as an immediate instrument of knowledge or work) has raised strongemotions. The dramatic rhapsode Ion, in Plato’s dialogue, reports thatwhen in performance he looks ‘‘down at [the audience] from the stageabove, I see them, every time, weeping, casting terrible glances, strickenwith amazement at the deeds recounted.”1Richard Wagner finds nothingless than salvation in the experience of art.
