Does "Great" Art Exist? A Critique of the Axiological Foundations of the Artistic Canon

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Result on the web

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Does "Great" Art Exist? A Critique of the Axiological Foundations of the Artistic Canon

Original language description

My paper explores critical objections to the concept of the artistic canon, conceived as a summary of works with an objective aesthetic value that have stood the test of time. To begin with, the objections of feminist and postcolonial criticism are discussed and examined. However, the sociological objection questioning the axiological foundation of the canon, i.e. the possibility of generally applicable aesthetic judgment, has been identified as the most crucial. My paper proceeds to discuss the theoryof ideal perception as a solution to the problem of justifying aesthetic judgments. My aim is to prove that from the axiological perspective, the theory of the ideal critic gets tangled in the never-ending regress of a logical circle, or it eventually finds its justification through a particular social practice. This theory is also problematic in the erroneous assumption of logical independence of the descriptive and evaluating components of aesthetic concepts. The inability to separate

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

AA - Philosophy and religion

OECD FORD branch

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Project

<a href="/en/project/GPP409%2F11%2FP374" target="_blank" >GPP409/11/P374: Sociological Critique of Aesthetic Autonomy</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2014

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Proceedings of the European Society for Aesthetics

ISSN

1664-5278

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Volume of the periodical

2014

Issue of the periodical within the volume

6

Country of publishing house

CH - SWITZERLAND

Number of pages

21

Pages from-to

436-456

UT code for WoS article

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