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Anti-Anti-Essentialism About Art
No full textThe successful specification of the definition of art has so far proven elusive. Discouraged by repeated failed attempts at the definition of art, numerous anti-essentialist philosophers have suggested alternative accounts (for example, Dominic McIver Lopes, Kathleen Stock and Berys Gaut). In this paper I defend the project of the definition of art by arguing that the strongest anti-essentialist arguments are unsuccessful in ruling out either the possibility or the value of a definition of art. Based on my observations regarding a blind spot in Wittgenstein’s anti-essentialist “look and see” approach, I conclude by suggesting a new avenue of investigation for essentialism regarding art
In/Expressible Space: Pre-Textual, Textual, and Post-Textual Concepts of Space in Theory of Arts and Media
No full textAleksandr Voronsky's Aesthetic Realism: "Art Is the Cognition of Life"
No full textThis paper follows up on "The Soviet Aesthetics of Aleksandr Voronsky," which attempted a brief exposition of the aesthetic theory of the pre-Stalinist Russian literary critic by way of his Marxism-Plekhanovism, his understanding of art and the unconscious, and his method of aesthetic evaluation. While that work said Voronsky's proposition "art is the cognition of life" is a "general psychologistic definition," closer examination reveals that Voronsky is actually advancing a form of normative aesthetic realism and that he is defining, defending, and promoting the tradition of realistic-mimetic art
Interview - Jesse Prinz
No full textAn interview with Jesse Prinz, conducted at the graduate portion of the American Society for Aesthetics's eastern division meeting on March 30, 2014
Writings to be Seen and Images to be Read
No full textWritings to be Seen and Images to be Read: The Adventand Development of a Philosophical Concept of IconicWriting and its Display Through Three CreativeDiscourses (A-Graphism, Typo-Graphism, Photo-Graphism