Tiziana Andina is Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Turin, Italy.Natalia Iacobelli is a translator in the College of Liberal Arts at Temple University, USA.

Written with a pleasing lightness of touch and well-informed in the history of aesthetics, this book offers an illuminating critical survey of the perennial efforts to define art.

• Introduction: On the Philosophy of Art \ 1. The Twentieth Century and the Long History of the Imitative Theory \ 2. Definitions \ 3. On the Impossibility of Defining \ 4. Works of Art as Social and Historical Objects \ Notes \ Bibliography \ Index of Names

Tiziana Andina is Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Turin, Italy.Natalia Iacobelli is a translator in the College of Liberal Arts at Temple University, USA.

Written with a pleasing lightness of touch and well-informed in the history of aesthetics, this book offers an illuminating critical survey of the perennial efforts to define art.

• Introduction: On the Philosophy of Art \ 1. The Twentieth Century and the Long History of the Imitative Theory \ 2. Definitions \ 3. On the Impossibility of Defining \ 4. Works of Art as Social and Historical Objects \ Notes \ Bibliography \ Index of Names