Contemporary Art and the Problem of Indiscernibles. An Adverbialist Approach
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Result on the web
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.33134/eeja.283" target="_blank" >10.33134/eeja.283</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Contemporary Art and the Problem of Indiscernibles. An Adverbialist Approach
Original language description
This paper addresses Arthur Danto’s claim that contemporary artworks, such as Andy Warhol’s Brillo Box, do not differ perceptually from ordinary objects, and that in order to see contemporary artworks as art the viewer has to move from mere experience to a meaning expressed by the work. I propose to supplement Danto’s thesis. I argue that, while some contemporary artworks may indeed be perceptually indistinguishable from ordinary objects, these works are distinguishable not only by means of meaning but also by means of a non-perceptual aesthetic experience. I then discuss two theories that might provide a model of such an aesthetic experience. First, I focus on James Shelley’s theory of non-perceptual aesthetic experience conceived as a representation of non-perceptual aesthetic properties. Second, I discuss Jérôme Dokic’s adverbialist theory, which sees aesthetic experience as a combination of non-aesthetic attitudes. I argue that the adverbialist model is the most promising candidate for solving our problem. The model must be extended, however, if it is to account for pragmatic attitudes in response to artworks.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2023
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Estetika: The European journal of aesthetics
ISSN
2571-0915
e-ISSN
2571-0915
Volume of the periodical
60
Issue of the periodical within the volume
1
Country of publishing house
FI - FINLAND
Number of pages
17
Pages from-to
19-35
UT code for WoS article
000960121700002
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85153612907