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Dangerous Art - On Moral Criticisms of Artwork (Hardcover)
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Dangerous Art - On Moral Criticisms of Artwork (Hardcover)
Series: Thinking Art
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Dangerous Art takes up the problem of judging works of art using
moral standards. When we think that a work is racist, or morally
dangerous, what do we mean? James Harold approaches the topic from
two angles. First, he takes up the moral question on its own. What
could it mean to say that a work of art (rather than, say, a human
being) is immoral? He then steps back and examines how moral
evaluation fits into the larger task of evaluating artworks. If an
artwork is immoral, what does that tell us about how to value the
artwork? By tackling the issue from both sides, Harold demonstrates
how many of the reasons previously given for thinking that works of
art are immoral do not stand up to careful scrutiny. While many
philosophers of art have simply assumed that artworks can be
evaluated morally and proceeded as though such assessments were
unproblematic, Harold highlights the complexities and difficulties
inherent in such evaluations. He argues that even when works of art
are rightly condemned from a moral point of view, the relationship
between that moral flaw and their value as artworks is complex. He
instead defends a moderate, skeptic version of autonomism between
morality and aesthetics. Employing figures and ideas from ancient
Greece, classical China, and the Harlem Renaissance, as well as
William Styron's novel The Confessions of Nat Turner, he argues
that we cannot judge artworks in the same way that we judge people
on moral grounds. In this sense, we can judge an artwork to be both
wicked and beautiful; nothing requires us to judge an artwork more
or less valuable aesthetically just because we judge it to be
morally bad or good. Taking up complex issues at the intersection
of art and ethics, Dangerous Art will appeal to philosophers and
students interested in art, aesthetics, moral philosophy, and
philosophy of mind.
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