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Sprezzatura: Concealing the Effort of Art from Aristotle to Duchamp
ISBN: 9780231540346
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Columbia University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Sprezzatura (Aesthetics); Art -- Philosophy;

Paolo D'Angelo traces the history of concealing art--which Italian calls sprezzatura --from ancient rhetoric to our own times. Finding the precept that art must be hidden from cosmetics to interior design, politics to poetry, the English garden to shabby chic, Sprezzatura is an erudite and surprising tour of aesthetics, philosophy, and art history.

Paolo D'Angelo is Professor of Aesthetics and Head of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Roma Tre. His Ph.D. is from the University of Bologna. He is also Vice President of the Società Italiana di Estetica. His research interests include aesthetics of the visual arts, environmental aesthetics, analytic aesthetics, history of aesthetics, German philosophy, and contemporary Italian philosophy. He is the author of a number of books in Italian, including Aesthetics (Laterza), Introduction to Analytic Aesthetics (Laterza), Aestheticism (Il Mulino), Dictionary of Aesthetics (Laterza), and Symbol and Art in Hegel (Glyph).Paolo D'Angelo is professor of aesthetics at Roma Tre University. He is the author of a number of books on aesthetics and philosophy.