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John, Eileen (2020) Learning from aesthetic disagreement and flawed artworks. The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 78 (3). pp. 279-288. doi:10.1111/jaac.12748 ISSN 0021-8529.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jaac.12748
Abstract
Disagreements about art are considered here for their potential to pose questions about reality beyond the artwork. The project of assessing artistic value is useful for bringing complex questions to light. The ambitiousness of the cognitive stock, in Richard Wollheim's term, that can be relevant to understanding an artwork may mean that confident evaluation will elude us. Thinking about artistic value judgment in this way shifts its centrality as the point of artistic interpretation and evaluation; the goal of judging a work's meaning and value is a useful tool for prompting us to understand a work. But if we fail to reach that goal, that does not mean we have failed to engage with the work appropriately. The artistic value judgment, and achieving consensus on that value, can be secondary in importance to grasping the problems a work poses that are not immediately resolvable. Examples drawn from literary and philosophical imagining, in the work of Grace Paley and Mary Mothersill, and from Toni Morrison's literary criticism are used to illustrate and support the fruitfulness of this approach.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > B Philosophy (General) B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BH Aesthetics N Fine Arts > N Visual arts (General) For photography, see TR |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Philosophy | ||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Art -- Philosophy, Art and philosophy, Aesthetics , Art criticism | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Wiley | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 0021-8529 | ||||||||
| Official Date: | 13 August 2020 | ||||||||
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| Volume: | 78 | ||||||||
| Number: | 3 | ||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 279-288 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1111/jaac.12748 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Learning from Aesthetic Disagreement and Flawed Artworks, Eileen John, Vol 78, Issue 3, Summer 2020, pp.279-288, which has been published in final form at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jaac.12748 . This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions. | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 28 August 2020 | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 13 August 2022 |
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