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Art Rethought - The Social Practices of Art (Hardcover)
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Art Rethought - The Social Practices of Art (Hardcover)
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Human beings engage works of the arts in many different ways: they
sing songs while working, they kiss icons, they create and dedicate
memorials. Yet almost all philosophers of art of the modern period
have ignored this variety and focused entirely on just one mode of
engagement, namely, disinterested attention. In the first part of
the book Nicholas Wolterstorff asks why philosophers have
concentrated on just this one mode of engagement. The answer he
proposes is that almost all philosophers have accepted what the
author calls the grand narrative concerning art in the modern
world. It is generally agreed that in the early modern period,
members of the middle class in Western Europe increasingly engaged
works of the arts as objects of disinterested attention. The grand
narrative claims that this change represented the arts coming into
their own, and that works of art, so engaged, are socially other
and transcendent. Wolterstorff argues that the grand narrative has
to be rejected as not fitting the facts. Wolterstorff then offers
an alternative framework for thinking about the arts. Central to
the alternative framework that he proposes are the idea of the arts
as social practices and the idea of works of the arts as having
different meaning in different practices. He goes on to use this
framework to analyse in some detail five distinct social practices
of art and the meaning that works have within those practices: the
practice of memorial art, of art for veneration, of social protest
art, of works songs, and of recent art-reflexive art.
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