Year: 1993
Type: article
Abstract: There are mainly two ways of thinking art. One of these pretends to determine precisely, with a great deal of speculative theorizing, what is the essence of art. The great traditional question is therefore “What is art?”. The other way of examining the problem reflects upon the functioning of all works of art. Its approach to the problem turns the question around, indubitably in a less traditional manner, to the understanding of “When is there art?”. Whatever essence one may have granted to ...
Source: Critique d’art
Author: Roger Pouivet
Language: English
Topic: Ethics, Aesthetics, and Art
Subfield: Philosophy
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4378445477