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Taking Art Personally: Austin, Performatives And Art, David Goldblatt
Taking Art Personally: Austin, Performatives And Art, David Goldblatt
Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)
This paper is an attempt to apply speech act theory to aesthetics. In particular, it purports to be a contribution to reception theory by drawing attention to certain similarities between the contextual structure of performatives and the structure of the reception of art. It hopes to locate the auditor or spectator of artworks in what J. L. Austin calls “the total context” to help explain how certain aspects of artworks can be taken personally, somehow being about and seemingly directed at “me.” It is one way the so-called paradox of fiction can be by-passed by showing how the emotive aspects …
Artists And Social Change, Curtis Carter
Artists And Social Change, Curtis Carter
Artists And Social Change, Curtis Carter
Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications
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Reconciliation And Harmony: The Philosophical Art Of Tragic Drama, Lawrence Kimmel
Reconciliation And Harmony: The Philosophical Art Of Tragic Drama, Lawrence Kimmel
Philosophy Faculty Research
In the performance of art one can begin at the beginning, but in a discussion of art one must begin somewhere in the middle. Here, it is with the conviction that art, in whatever form, though it may surprise the sense and quicken the spirit, disturb our thinking or revoke a thoughtless ease, still, its full expression restores a sense of presence and wholeness to our being. That is, every art form has a point of closure in a harmony of the spirit. Even tragic drama, which brings the darkness of human character into a glare of recognition and acceptance, …