Includes bibliographical references and index.

Acknowledgements -- Part One: Fundamentals Chapter 1: Introduction: The Techne Standpoint -- Chapter 2: Art and Evolution -- Chapter 3: The Artist's Touch -- Part Two: Origins in Greek Philosophy Chapter 4: How Plato (Despite Himself) Invented Techne Theory -- Chapter 5: From Aristotle to Extended Mind -- Part Three: Where Do Poems Come From? Chapter 6: A Romantic View: Seamus Heaney -- Chapter 7: Excursus on the Nature of Language -- Chapter 8: An Anti-Romantic View: Paul Valéry -- Part Four: Studies in Modernist Techne Chapter 9: T. J. Clark's Picasso -- Chapter 10: What's Radical About Radical Painting? -- Chapter 11: The Techne of Kafka's Metamorphosis -- Part Five: Techne Metatheory Chapter 12: Universal Design Space and the Lines of Force -- Bibliography -- Index.

"Only 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. From 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. Understood 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."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

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