Techne Theory - by Henry Staten (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>Only since the Romantic period has art been understood in terms of an ineffable aesthetic quality of things like poems, paintings, and sculptures, and the art-maker as endowed with an inexplicable power of creation. From the Greeks to the 18th century, art was conceived as <i>techne--</i>the skill and know-how by which things and states of affairs are ordered. <i>Techne Theory</i> shows how to use this concept to cut through the Romantic notion of art as a kind of magic by returning to the original sense of art as techne, the standpoint of the person who actually knows how to <i>make </i>a work of art. <br/><br/>Understood as techne, art-making, like all other cultural accomplishments, is a form of work performed by an artisan who has inherited the know-how of previous generations of artisans. Along the way, <i>Techne Theory </i>cuts through the humanist-structuralist impasse over the question of artistic agency and explains what 'form' really means.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>From the standpoint of techne theory, Kant's most radical insight concerned the limitation of the creative power of individual genius, which cannot account for the emergence of the novelty or the formal evolution of the artwork. Building on this critical insight, Staten creates a highly original phenomenological investigation into the technical components of "art-making, +? remaining grounded in material processes and what art and literary theory can (and cannot) tell us about them.<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Henry Staten</b> is Byron W. and Alice L. Lockwood Professor in the Humanities, University of Washington, USA. His acclaimed first book, <i>Wittgenstein and Derrida </i>(1984) was one of the first philosophical commentaries on deconstruction. Since then his work has ranged widely across literature and philosophy from the Greeks through modernism.
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