Two Thumbs Up: How Critics Aid Appreciation, Ross Stephanie

Автор: Stephanie Ross
Название: How Critics Aid Aesthetic Appreciation
ISBN: 1472519086 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781472519085
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
Цена: 68640.00 T
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Описание: By applying current empirical work in aesthetics to popular art and criticism, Stephanie Ross explores the act of aesthetic appreciation. Specifying a set of ideal critics and linking their verdicts to a standard of taste, Ross assess what goes on when engaging with works of art. Questioning the conditions that determine why some views are privileged, this study sets out and defends a neo-Humean account of this process. It covers a wide range of topics including gustatory taste, aesthetic qualities, differences among the arts, bad art, the levelling effect of the internet, empirical research on aesthetic preference and prospects for realism in aesthetics. Arguing for a suitability requirement that limits the works each critic ought to judge, Ross proposes critic clusters - groupings of critics with similar taste - and suggests that the density and overlap of these formations reveals much about the critical terrain. Examining the relation between critics and those they advise, this study draws practical conclusions about ordinary appreciators' art-related choices and the usefulness of expert advice. A fascinating contribution to contemporary analytic aesthetics.