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Aesthetic Creation (Hardcover)
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Aesthetic Creation (Hardcover)
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What is the purpose of a work of art? What drives us to make art?
Why do we value art and consume it? Nick Zangwill argues that we
cannot understand the nature of art without first having answers to
these fundamental questions. On his view, which he dubs "the
Aesthetic Creation Theory," a work of art is something created for
a particular aesthetic purpose. More specifically, the function of
art is to have certain aesthetic properties in virtue of its
non-aesthetic properties, and this function arises because of the
artist's insight into the nature of these dependence relations and
her intention to bring them about. In defending this view, Zangwill
provides an account of aesthetic action and aesthetic creative
thought and shows how the Aesthetic Creation Theory can accommodate
two kinds of seeming counterexamples to aesthetic theories of art:
narrative art and twentieth-century avant-garde art. Aesthetic
Creation also contains a detailed exposition and critique of a
range of rival views, including Dickie's institutional theory of
art, accounts of art that make essential reference to an audience,
and sociological theories which purport to explain the nature of
art without recourse to the notion of the aesthetic.
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