04125nam 22006494a 450 991067723630332120230617005245.01-280-19835-497866101983510-470-79876-90-470-77492-41-4051-4364-9(CKB)1000000000342044(EBL)233114(OCoLC)475939757(SSID)ssj0000105779(PQKBManifestationID)11127975(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000105779(PQKBWorkID)10104815(PQKB)10874306(MiAaPQ)EBC233114(EXLCZ)99100000000034204420030515d2004 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrArt as performance /David DaviesMalden, MA Blackwell Pub.20041 online resource (292 p.)New directions in aesthetics ;2Description based upon print version of record.1-4051-1667-6 1-4051-1666-8 Includes bibliographical references (p. [266]-272) and index.Contents; Preface; 1 Introduction; 1.1 Challenges to Aesthetic Empiricism; 1.2 Methodological Interlude:The "Pragmatic Constraint " on the Ontology of Art; 2 Aesthetic Empiricism and the Philosophy of Art; 2.1 Aesthetic Empiricism; 2.2 Indirect Arguments Against Aesthetic Empiricism; 2.3 Direct Arguments Against Aesthetic Empiricism; 2.4 Drawing Ontological Conclusions from the Counter-Empiricist Arguments; 3 The Fine Structure of the Focus of Appreciation; 3.1 The Structure of the Focus of Appreciation; 3.2 Performance and Appreciation; 3.3 Ontology After Empiricism4 The Artwork as Performance: An Argument from Artistic Intentions4.1 Overview; 4.2 The Bearing of Provenance on Work and Focus; 4.3 Artistic Intentions and the Ontology of Art; 4.4 Conclusions; 5 Provenance,Modality,and the Identity of the Artwork; 5.1 Preliminaries; 5.2 The Work-Relativity of Modality; 5.3 A Strategy for Accommodating the Work-Relativity of Modality; 5.4 Appendix:A Defense of the "Modality Principle "; 6 Artwork,Action,and Performance; 6.1 The "Action-Type Hypothesis "; 6.2 Assessing the ATH; 6.3 Currie and his Critics; 7 Art as Performance7.1 Elaborating the Performance Theory7.2 Structure and Focus; 7.3 Heuristics and the Individuation of Artworks; 7.4 Work-Constitution and Modality on the Performance Theory; 7.5 Performances,Actions,and Doings; 8 Revisionism and Modernism Revisited; 8.1 Revisionism Revisited; 8.2 Performance and the Challenge of the Modern; 8.3 More on Forgeries; 9 Performance as Art; 9.1 Performance as Art; 9.2 Performed Works and Work-Performances; 9.3 Work-Performances and Performance-Works; 9.4 Performance-Works and Improvisation; 10 Defining "Art " as Performance,,and the Values of Art10.1 Notes Toward a Definition of "Art "10.2 The Values of Art; 10.3 Conclusions:The Case Against Contextualism; References; IndexIn this richly argued and provocative book, David Davies elaborates and defends a broad conceptual framework for thinking about the arts that reveals important continuities and discontinuities between traditional and modern art, and between different artistic disciplines. Elaborates and defends a broad conceptual framework for thinking about the arts. Offers a provocative view about the kinds of things that artworks are and how they are to be understood. Reveals important continuities and discontinuities between traditional and modern art. Highlights corNew directions in aesthetics ;2.AestheticsArtPhilosophyAesthetics.ArtPhilosophy.111.85111/.85701.1Davies David1949-964256MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910677236303321Art as performance2266775UNINA