New PDF release: Philosophy and Conceptual Art

By Peter Goldie,Elisabeth Schellekens

ISBN-10: 0199285551

ISBN-13: 9780199285556

ISBN-10: 0199568251

ISBN-13: 9780199568253

The fourteen sought after analytic philosophers writing right here have interaction with the cluster of philosophical questions raised via conceptual paintings. They deal with 4 huge questions: what sort of paintings is conceptual paintings? What follows from the truth that conceptual paintings doesn't objective to have aesthetic worth? What wisdom or knowing do we achieve from conceptual artwork? How ought we to understand conceptual art?

Conceptual paintings, extensively understood by way of the individuals as starting with Marcel Duchamp's ready-mades and as carrying on with past the Nineteen Seventies to incorporate a few of present day modern paintings, is grounded within the inspiration that the artist's 'idea' is valuable to paintings, and, opposite to culture, that the cloth paintings is on no account necessary to the paintings as such. to exploit the phrases of the conceptual artist Sol LeWitt, "In conceptual artwork the assumption of the concept that is crucial element of the work...and the execution is a perfunctory affair". Given this so-called "dematerialization" of the paintings item, the emphasis on cognitive worth, and the common entice philosophy via many conceptual artists, there are various questions which are raised through conceptual paintings that are supposed to be of curiosity to analytic philosophers. Why, then, has so little paintings been performed during this sector? This quantity is most likely the 1st number of papers by means of analytic Anglo-American philosophers tackling those matters head-on.

Contributors:
Margaret Boden, Diarmuid Costello, Gregory Currie, David Davies, Peter Goldie, Robert Hopkins, Matthew Kieran, Peter Lamarque, Dominic McIver Lopes, Derek Matravers, Elisabeth Schellekens, Kathleen inventory, Carolyn Wilde, and the "Art & Language" group.

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