Better Living Through Criticism: How to Think About Art, Pleasure, Beauty and Truth [Audiobook] download free by A. O. Scott
- Listen audiobook: Better Living Through Criticism: How to Think About Art, Pleasure, Beauty and Truth
- Author: A. O. Scott
- Release date: 2016/12/6
- Publisher: VINTAGE PUBLISHING
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Poetry and Drama
- ISBN: 9781910702550
- Rating: 8.45 of 10
- Votes: 581
- Review by: Rene Conti
- Review rating: 7.62 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/9/19
- Duration: 3H40M9S in 256 kbps (57.6 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-08-27
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: WMA, MP3, FLAC, MPEG4, AC3, WAV (compression XZ, CHM, ZIP, RAR, TAR.XZ, 7-ZIP)
- Total pages original book: 288
- Includes a PDF summary of 33 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 24M51S (6.6 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: Few could explain, let alone seek out, a career in criticism. Yet what A. O. Scott shows in Better Living Through Criticism is that we are, in fact, all critics: because critical thinking informs almost every aspect of artistic creation, of civil action, of interpersonal life. With penetrating insight and humour, Scott shows that while individual critics - himself included - can make mistakes and find flaws where they shouldn't, criticism as a discipline is one of the noblest, most creative and urgent activities.Using his own film criticism as a starting point - everything from an infamous dismissal of the international blockbuster The Avengers to his intense affection for Pixar's animated Ratatouille - Scott expands outwards, easily guiding readers through the complexities of Rilke and Shelley, the origins of Chuck Berry and the Rolling Stones, the power of Marina Abramovic and 'Ode on a Grecian Urn' Scott shows that real criticism was and always will be the breath of fresh air that allows true creativity to thrive. As he puts it: `The time for criticism is always now, because the imperative to think clearly, never goes away.'
- Other categories, genre or collection: Literature: History & Criticism, Film Theory & Criticism, Literary Theory, Western Philosophy, From C 1900 -
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- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 16.58 USD
- Dimensions: 135x216x20mm
- Weight: 308g
- Printed by: Jonathan Cape Ltd
- Published in: London, United Kingdom
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