by Cynthia Freeland · Ediciones Cátedra · tapa dura · ISBN 9788437620466
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«Pero ¿esto es arte?» is an essay on art theory by Cynthia Freeland, published by Ediciones Cátedra in hardcover (256 pages, in Spanish).
Freeland examines what art is and why we value it, moving without a fixed order through theories such as ritual, formalist, imitation, expression, and cognitive. She starts from provocative works of recent art —blood, dead animals, scatological materials—, goes back through art history, and closes with collecting, the artist's role, and the digital age.
It belongs to the Cuadernos Arte Cátedra collection (no. 39); this is the 3rd edition, published in 2004.
For general readers interested in aesthetics, criticism, and art history, with a popularizing approach.
