A Course on Aesthetics

A Course on Aesthetics

Renato Barilli
Translated by Karen Pinkus

$22.50 paper
ISBN: 0-8166-2119-5
ISBN-13: 978-0-8166-2119-4

Barilli’s text offers a broad perspective of current scholarship in aesthetics-without favoring any one particular school, discipline or ideology. Written in an elegant and clear style, Barilli’s text explores the basic inherent structures of human thought about the classification and evaluation of the arts. Barilli avoids any binding or dogmatic conclusions about artistic assesment in his consideration of both historical and more current art forms such as video and performance art. In doing so, he presents a provacative contemporary account of a scholarly concern.

Renato Barilli is a professor of rhetoric and stylistics at the University of Bologna and the author of Rhetoric (1989).

172 pages | 1993



A Course on Aesthetics Renato Barilli Translated by Karen Pinkus		$22.50 paper ISBN: 0-8166-2119-5 ISBN-13: 978-0-8166-2119-4
Barilli’s text offers a broad perspective of current scholarship in aesthetics-without favoring any one particular school, discipline or ideology. Written in an elegant and clear style, Barilli’s text explores the basic inherent structures of human thought about the classification and evaluation of the arts. Barilli avoids any binding or dogmatic conclusions about artistic assesment in his consideration of both historical and more current art forms such as video and performance art. In doing so, he presents a provacative contemporary account of a scholarly concern. Renato Barilli is a professor of rhetoric and stylistics at the University of Bologna and the author of Rhetoric (1989). 172 pages \| 1993