Archive for the ‘Art’ Category
Tuesday, April 9th, 2019
Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises.
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
The Intention
A standard interpretation of the Tempest is that it is Shakespeare’s meditations upon the theatre; that Prospero as magus is Shakespeare’s image of himself, and that Prospero’s renunciation of magic at ...
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Sunday, March 31st, 2019
One of several criticisms of the Actual Intentionalist theory of interpretation – even in its weakened or modified forms – is that it requires that each artwork have just one correct interpretation. According to Davies (ed. 2015, The Philosophy of Art, p. 118) for example, such a critic
rejects the idea ...
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Saturday, March 23rd, 2019
According to Actual Intentionalism, an artwork should be considered as a type of communication by the artist, and the ‘meaning’ of the artwork – which is what is to be understood by an interpretation of the artwork – is just what its author intended when creating it. There is supposedly ...
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Saturday, March 23rd, 2019
The appreciation of art is usually taken to involve an aesthetic judgement, and this judgement is most often said to be essentially non-cognitive. According to the Hume/Kant model of artistic appreciation, however, an aesthetic judgement of that kind is very often dependent upon a previous cognitive act of ‘understanding’ the ...
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Monday, May 8th, 2017
A: Imagine this
B: Look at this
Something big wrapped in plastic
Christo Javacheff (2000) Wrapped Reichstag Project for Berlin
A pickled cow
Damien Hirst (1995) Mother and Child, Divided
Some bricks
William Anastasi (1964) En Route (Stack of Bricks) Originally untitled
A toilet
Marcel Duchamp (1917) Fountain
A bike seat with handlebars arranged like a bull
Pablo Picasso (1943) Head ...
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Sunday, May 7th, 2017
Many defenders of Bill Henson's pictures of naked sexualised children claim that the public (Philistines) are wrong to condemn Henson's work as pornography because they are art. (But note that some in the Art world's 'in crowd' were prepared to admit Henson's offensiveness before the public noticed.) In making this ...
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