Davies Art as Performance

1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-1-4051-4364-6
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 296 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: New Directions in Aesthetics

In this richly argued and provocative book, David Davies elaboratesand defends a broad conceptual framework for thinking about thearts that reveals important continuities and discontinuitiesbetween traditional and modern art, and between different artisticdisciplines.
* * Elaborates and defends a broad conceptual framework forthinking about the arts.
* Offers a provocative view about the kinds of things thatartworks are and how they are to be understood.
* Reveals important continuities and discontinuities betweentraditional and modern art.
* Highlights core topics in aesthetics and art theory, includingtraditional theories about the nature of art, aestheticappreciation, artistic intentions, performance, and artisticmeaning.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Davies, Dave

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface.
1. Introduction:.
Challenges to Aesthetic Empiricism.
Methodological Interlude: The 'Pragmatic Constraint'on the Ontology of Art.
Aesthetic Empiricism and the Philosophy of Art.
2. Aesthetic Empiricism:.
Indirect Arguments Against Aesthetic Empiricism.
3. The Fine Structure of the Focus of Appreciation:.
The Structure of the Focus of Appreciation.
4. The Artwork as Performance: An Argument from ArtisticIntentions:.
Overview.
The Bearing of Provenance on Work and Focus.
Artistic Intentions and the Ontology of Art.
Interpretation and Intention.
A Role for Actual Intentions.
Ontological Implications.
Conclusions.
5. Provenance, Modality, and the Identity of theArtwork:.
Preliminaries.
6. Artwork, Action, and Performance.
7. Art as Performance:.
Elaborating the Performance Theory.
Structure and Focus.
Heuristics and the Individuation of Artworks.
Work-Constitution and Modality on the Performance Theory.
Performances, Actions, and Doings.
8. Revisionism and Modernism Revisited.
9. Performance as Art.
10. Defining 'Art' as Performance, and the Valuesof Art:.
Notes Towards a Definition of 'Art'.
The Values of Art.
Conclusions: The Case Against Contextualism.
References.
Index

Über Autor(innen)

David Davies is Associate Professor of Philosophy at McGill University and has published widely on topics in philosophy of art, metaphysics, philosophy of language, and philosophy of mind.