¿Qué es la calidad en el arte?

Author: Alejandro Vergara Sharp

Published by Tres Hermanas

ISBN: 9788412418682

Softcover. 109 pages

Language: Spanish

Year: 2022

The concept of quality has always been elusive. The relativity of value judgments in aesthetics is something that from Aristotle to Kant and Croce has been well established in European thought, which was a brake on any attempt to define and establish with conceptual clarity what quality in art consists of. Alejandro Vergara faces the difficult task of "fencing in" this concept, convinced of the importance of this intellectual effort, and to do so he will first explain the winding and elusive path of the idea of quality throughout the history of Western thought and then, based on his broad and recognized knowledge of European painting from the 15th to the 18th centuries, he will enter into a practical exposition, accompanying us to discover, as if it were a detective investigation, what was understood in Europe by quality during three long centuries in which a large part of the best European painting was produced.