The Routledge Companion to the Philosophies of Painting and Sculpture Taylor & Francis Ltd

Comprised of 45 chapters, written especially for this volume by an international team of leading experts, this is the first handbook of its kind. Individual topics include art and cognitive science, evolutionary origins of art, art and perception, pictorial realism, artistic taste, style, issues of race and gender, art and religion, art and philosophy, and the end of art. The work of selected philosophers is also discussed, including Diderot, Hegel, Ruskin, Gombrich, Goodman, Wollheim, and Danto...