Philosophy and conceptual art / / editors, Peter Goldie, Elisabeth Schellekens

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910784778703321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Oxford : , : Clarendon Press; Oxford ; ; New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2007
• ISBN: 1-383-04305-1; 1-281-15413-X; 9786611154134; 0-19-153654-7; 1-4294-9299-6
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xxi, 273 pages) : illustrations
• Altri autori (Persone): GoldiePeter; SchellekensElisabeth
• Disciplina: 709.04/075
• Soggetti: Aesthetics; Art and philosophy; Art - Philosophy; Conceptual art
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction / Peter Goldie and Elisabeth Schellekens -- Conceptual art as a kind of art -- On perceiving conceptual art / Peter Lamarque -- The dematerialization of the object / Derek Matravers -- Visual conceptual art / Gregory Currie -- Speaking through silence : conceptual art and conversational implicature / Robert Hopkins -- Conceptual art and aesthetic value -- The aesthetic value of ideas / Elisabeth Schellekens -- Kant after Lewitt : towards an aesthetics of conceptual art / Diarmuid Costello -- Conceptual art, knowledge and understanding -- Matter and meaning in the work of art : Joseph Kosuth's One and three chairs / Carolyn Wilde -- Telling pictures : the place of narrative in late modern 'visual art' / David Davies -- Conceptual art and knowledge / Peter Goldie -- Sartre, Wittgenstein, and learning from imagination / Kathleen Stock -- Appreciating ; conceptual art -- Artistic character, creativity, and the appraisal of conceptual art / Matthew Kieran -- Creativity and conceptual art / Margaret A. Boden -- Conceptual art is not what it seems / Dominic McIver Lopes -- Emergency conditionals / Art & Language.
• Sommario/riassunto: Fourteen prominent analytic philosophers engage with the philosophical puzzles raised by conceptual art: What kind of art is conceptual art? What follows from the fact that conceptual art does not aim to have aesthetic value? What knowledge or understanding can we gain from conceptual art? How ought we to appreciate conceptual art? - ;The fourteen prominent analytic philosophers writing here engage with the cluster of philosophical questions raised by conceptual art. They address four broad questions: What kind of art is conceptual art? What follows from the fact that conceptual art does not a