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What Art Is: What's Not to Like?

Jeff Riggenbach maintains that Torres and Kamhi's What Art Is adds to our understanding of Rand's key aesthetic concepts and is particularly valuable for the writings by other thinkers that it brings to bear on Rand's ideas. It is, however, remiss in failing to include any discussion of Stephen C. P...

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Published in:Journal of Ayn Rand Studies (Journal of Ayn Rand Studies Foundation) Vol. 2; no. 2; pp. 265 - 291
Main Author: Riggenbach, Jeff
Format: Article
Published: Journal of Ayn Rand Studies Foundation Spring2001
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Literary style
What Art Is: The Esthetic Theory of Ayn Rand (Book)
Torres, Louis
Kamhi, Michelle Marder
Rand, Ayn, 1905-1982
Authors
Philosophers
Aesthetics
Music
Photography
Motion pictures
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost
Summary:Jeff Riggenbach maintains that Torres and Kamhi's What Art Is adds to our understanding of Rand's key aesthetic concepts and is particularly valuable for the writings by other thinkers that it brings to bear on Rand's ideas. It is, however, remiss in failing to include any discussion of Stephen C. Pepper and in failing to discern the true importance of Susanne K. Langer's works for a fuller understanding of Rand's aesthetics. It errs also in its discussion of music, photography, and cinema. Though unnecessarily marred by flawed copyediting, it is an important work.