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Art and Art-Attempts (Hardcover)
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Although few philosophers agree about what it is for something to
be art, most, if not all, agree on one thing: art must be in some
sense intention dependent. Art and Art Attempts is about what
follows from taking intention dependence seriously as a substantive
necessary condition for something's being art. Christy Mag Uidhir
argues that from the assumption that art must be the product of
intentional action, along with basic action-theoretic account of
attempts (goal-oriented intention-directed activity), follows a
host of sweeping implications for philosophical enquiry into the
nature of art and its principal relata such as authorship, art
forms, and art ontology: e.g., * An informative distinction between
art, non-art, and failed-art that any viable theory of art must
capture. * A far more productive minimal framework for authorship
not only capable of systematically addressing issues of collective
authorship appropriation, etc. but also one according to which
artists just are authors. * A coherent and structurally precise
account of art forms based upon the relation between artists,
artworks, and the sortal properties thereof. * A unified and far
less metaphysically suspect ontology of art according to which if
there are such things as artworks, then artworks must be concrete
things. Ultimately, Mag Uidhir aims neither to propose nor to
defend any particular, precise answer to the question "What is
art?" Instead, he shows the ways in which taking
intention-dependence seriously as a substantive necessary condition
for being art can be profoundly revelatory, and perhaps even
radically revisionary, as to the scope and limits of what any
particular, precise answer to such a question could viably be.
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