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Art and Intention: A Philosophical Study

Autor Paisley Livingston
en Limba Engleză Paperback – mar 2007
Do the artist's intentions have anything to do with the making and appreciation of works of art? In Art and Intention Paisley Livingston develops a broad and balanced perspective on perennial disputes between intentionalists and anti-intentionalists in philosophical aesthetics and critical theory. He surveys and assesses a wide range of rival assumptions about the nature of intentions and the status of intentionalist psychology. With detailed reference to examples from diverse media, art forms, and traditions, he demonstrates that insights into the multiple functions of intentions have important implications for our understanding of artistic creation and authorship, the ontology of art, conceptions of texts, works, and versions, basic issues pertaining to the nature of fiction and fictional truth, and the theory of art interpretation and appreciation. Livingston argues that neither the inspirationist nor rationalistic conceptions can capture the blending of deliberate and intentional, spontaneous and unintentional processes in the creation of art. Texts, works, and artistic structures and performances cannot be adequately individuated in the absence of a recognition of the relevant makers´ intentions. The distinction between complete and incomplete works receives an action-theoretic analysis that makes possible an elucidation of several different senses of 'fragment' in critical discourse. Livingston develops an account of authorship, contending that the recognition of intentions is in fact crucial to our understanding of diverse forms of collective art-making. An artist's short-term intentions and long-term plans and policies interact in complex ways in the emergence of an artistic oeuvre, and our uptake of such attitudes makes an important difference to our appreciation of the relations between items belonging to a single life-work. The intentionalism Livingston advocates is, however, a partial one, and accomodates a number of important anti-intentionalist contentions. Intentions are fallible, and works of art, like other artefacts, can be put to a bewildering diversity of uses. Yet some important aspects of art's meaning and value are linked to the artist´ s aims and activities.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780199204298
ISBN-10: 0199204292
Pagini: 270
Ilustrații: 2 figures
Dimensiuni: 160 x 240 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.42 kg
Editura: Clarendon Press
Colecția Clarendon Press
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

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A thoughtful and provoking discussion of art and intention - probably the most seriously engaged book to date written on the endlessly challenging subject of an artist's intentions and how it is possible, if at all, to interpret them.
A rich and ambitious book, one which...produces abundant food for thought for the most discerning philosophical palates.