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Aesthetics: Contemporary Theories

Aesthetics: Contemporary Theories. Further Information. See www.artandallusion.com My email: nigelwarburton@aol.com. Week by Week. 1) Against Definition 2) The Institutional Theory 3) Identifying Art 4) Aesthetic Concepts 5) Artists’ Intentions 6) Style and Personality. Last week.

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Aesthetics: Contemporary Theories

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  1. Aesthetics: Contemporary Theories

  2. Further Information • See www.artandallusion.com • My email: nigelwarburton@aol.com

  3. Week by Week • 1) Against Definition • 2) The Institutional Theory • 3) Identifying Art • 4) Aesthetic Concepts • 5) Artists’ Intentions • 6) Style and Personality

  4. Last week • Dickie’s Institutional Theory of Art • Attempts to give a definition in terms of relational properties • Artifact plus status conferral my member of the artworld

  5. Criticism of Dickie • Richard Wollheim’s Dilemma: • Either there are good reasons for conferral (which then constitute a non-Institutional theory of art) • Or conferral of status is arbitrary and trivial (doesn’t match intuitions about link between art and value)

  6. This Week • Noël Carroll on Identifying Art (reading 39)

  7. Starting Point • We can usually identify works of art, even though we can’t give a precise definition of art • Question: How do we achieve this consensus?

  8. Carroll’s answer • Historical narration is the primary strategy we use for classifying art (see p.454)

  9. Problem Situations • E.g. Warhol’s Brillo Boxes… • Response: tell a story linking to preceding art • What we seek are EXPLANATIONS not DEFINITIONS

  10. NOT • a) Family resemblance (neo-Witt.) view • Because interested in not just resemblances to preceding art but ancestry/genetics/descent • (and NOT denying that art might be able to be defined)

  11. NOT • Not a Definition at all…rather a description of what actually happens

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