Beauty and art criticism. A proposal from A.C. Danto
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URI: https://hdl.handle.net/10481/108827ISBN: 9781527560130
ISBN: 9781036430146
ISBN: 9781527562004
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Art Criticism Beauty Aesthetics Properties Art definition
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2020-11Referencia bibliográfica
Carrasco-Barranco, M. (2020). Beauty and Art Criticism: A Proposal from A.C. Danto. Martino Rossi Monti and Davor Pećnjak (Eds) What Is Beauty? A Multidisciplinary Approach to Aesthetic Experience (pp. 107-123). Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Abstract
My aim in this essay is to critically analyse the usefulness of the term
“beauty” for art criticism. This analysis follows in the footsteps of a
proposal made by the influential philosopher and art critic Arthur C. Danto
(1924-2013), set out especially in The Abuse of Beauty and some of his
other later texts. However, Danto was not very clear about the
phenomenology or conditions of beauty, and this ambiguity justified
objections to his claim. By reviewing some of those objections under the
spotlight of Danto’s view of art, my argument pursues the defence of a
feasible employment of “beauty” in art criticism