What is the purpose of art? What drives us to make it? Why do we value it? Nick Zangwill argues that the function of art is to have certain aesthetic properties in virtue of its non-aesthetic properties, and this function arises because of the artist's insight into the nature of these dependence relations and her intention to bring them about.
What is the purpose of art? What drives us to make it? Why do we value it? Nick Zangwill argues that the function of art is to have certain aesthetic properties in virtue of its non-aesthetic properties, and this function arises because of the artist's insight into the nature of these dependence relations and her intention to bring them about.
Nick Zangwill is Professor of Philosophy at Durham University.
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Preface Introduction Summary of Chapters 1: Groundrules in the Philosophy of Art 2: The Aesthetic Creation of Art 3: Are there Counterexamples to Aesthetic Theories of Art? 4: Art Essence, Identity and Survival 5: Aesthetic Functionalism 6: Art and Audience Appendix: On Dickie 7: Against the Sociology of Art 8: Places of publication and Acknowledgements Bibliography Subject Index Author Index
Preface Introduction Summary of Chapters 1: Groundrules in the Philosophy of Art 2: The Aesthetic Creation of Art 3: Are there Counterexamples to Aesthetic Theories of Art? 4: Art Essence, Identity and Survival 5: Aesthetic Functionalism 6: Art and Audience Appendix: On Dickie 7: Against the Sociology of Art 8: Places of publication and Acknowledgements Bibliography Subject Index Author Index
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