Artworld Metaphysics

by Robert Kraut

Book Overview

Artworld Metaphysics turns a critical eye upon aspects of the artworld, and articulates some of the problems, principles, and norms implicit in the actual practices of artistic creation, interpretation, evaluation, and commodification. Aesthetic theory is treated as descriptive and explanatory, rather than normative: a theory that relates to artworld realities as a semantic theory relates to the fragments of natural language it seeks to describe...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199228124
• ISBN13: 9780199228126
• Release Date: December 2007
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.8"