{"product_id":"the-aesthetics-of-mimesis-ancient-texts-and-modern-problems-9780691092584","title":"The Aesthetics of Mimesis: Ancient Texts and Modern Problems","description":"\u003cp\u003eMimesis is one of the oldest  most fundamental concepts in Western aesthetics. This book offers a new  searching treatment of its long history at the center of theories of representational art: above all  in the highly influential writings of Plato and Aristotle  but also in later Greco-Roman philosophy and criticism  and subsequently in many areas of aesthetic controversy from the Renaissance to the twentieth century. Combining classical scholarship  philosophical analysis  and the history of ideas--and ranging across discussion of poetry  painting  and music--Stephen Halliwell shows with a wealth of detail how mimesis  at all stages of its evolution  has been a more complex  variable concept than its conventional translation of \"imitation\" can now convey.  Far from providing a static model of artistic representation  mimesis has generated many different models of art  encompassing a spectrum of positions from realism to idealism. Under the influence of Platonist and Aristotelian paradigms  mimesis has been a crux of debate between proponents of what Halliwell calls \"world-reflecting\" and \"world-simulating\" theories of representation in both the visual and musico-poetic arts. This debate is about not only the fraught relationship between art and reality but also the psychology and ethics of how we experience and are affected by mimetic art.  Moving expertly between ancient and modern traditions  Halliwell contends that the history of mimesis hinges on problems that continue to be of urgent concern for contemporary aesthetics.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45665812021301,"sku":"ByrdShop_0691092583","price":113.44,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780691092584.jpg?v=1782408208","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-aesthetics-of-mimesis-ancient-texts-and-modern-problems-9780691092584","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}