{"product_id":"techne-theory-a-new-language-for-art","title":"Techne Theory","description":"\u003cp\u003eA New Language for Art\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOnly since the Romantic period has art been understood in terms of an ineffable aesthetic quality of things like poems, paintings, and sculptures, and the art-maker as endowed with an inexplicable power of creation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the Greeks to the 18th century, art was conceived as techne--the skill and know-how by which things and states of affairs are ordered. Techne Theory shows how to use this concept to cut through the Romantic notion of art as a kind of magic by returning to the original sense of art as techne, the standpoint of the person who actually knows how to make a work of art.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUnderstood as techne, art-making, like all other cultural accomplishments, is a form of work performed by an artisan who has inherited the know-how of previous generations of artisans. Along the way, Techne Theory cuts through the humanist-structuralist impasse over the question of artistic agency and explains what 'form' really means.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Henry Staten","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46140282077353,"sku":"9781472592903","price":12.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0424\/9518\/0962\/files\/9781472592903.jpg?v=1753940411","url":"https:\/\/roseyravelstonbooks.com.au\/products\/techne-theory-a-new-language-for-art","provider":"RoseyRavelston Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}