{"product_id":"art-and-entertainment-9781138599949","title":"Art and Entertainment","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePhilosophers have discussed art  or artistic practices such as poetry  since ancient times. But systems of art and entertainment appeared only in the modern era  in the West, during the 18th and 19th centuries. And philosophers have largely neglected the concept of entertainment. In this book Andy Hamilton explores art and entertainment from a philosophical standpoint. He argues, against modernist theory, that art and entertainment are not opposites, but form a loosely connected conceptual system. Against postmodernism, however, he insists on their vital differences.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHamilton begins by questioning the received modernist view, examining artist-entertainers including Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Louis Armstrong and Billie Holiday. Entertainment, he argues, is by nature audience-centred  but so is art, in a different way. Thus while art should pass \u003ci\u003ethe test of time\u003c\/i\u003e, entertainment must pass \u003ci\u003ethe test of its own time \u003c\/i\u003e it has to entertain at the time it is produced. Ar\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51019506221399,"sku":"9781138599949","price":35.14,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781138599949.jpg?v=1750780470","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/art-and-entertainment-9781138599949","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}