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.
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