How Should Contextual Matters Figure into Art Evaluations?

Suppose that the case has been made that evaluations of the artistic merit of an object or an event should include matters that are outside the scope of the purely formal. Accounts of why contextual matters should be relevant to art evaluation have been offered, and I would like to explore what come...

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Main Author: David Fenner
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Language:English
Published: Nederlands Genootschap voor Esthetica (Dutch Association of Aesthetics) 2020-12-01
Series:Aesthetic Investigations
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Online Access:https://www.aestheticinvestigations.eu/index.php/journal/article/view/209
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description Suppose that the case has been made that evaluations of the artistic merit of an object or an event should include matters that are outside the scope of the purely formal. Accounts of why contextual matters should be relevant to art evaluation have been offered, and I would like to explore what comes next, that is, how contextual matters should be considered when it comes to the evaluation of art objects and events.
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spelling doaj.art-2aada62668964f7c9235b471287945602022-12-21T20:05:29ZengNederlands Genootschap voor Esthetica (Dutch Association of Aesthetics)Aesthetic Investigations2352-27042020-12-014110.5281/zenodo.4415527How Should Contextual Matters Figure into Art Evaluations?David Fenner0University of North FloridaSuppose that the case has been made that evaluations of the artistic merit of an object or an event should include matters that are outside the scope of the purely formal. Accounts of why contextual matters should be relevant to art evaluation have been offered, and I would like to explore what comes next, that is, how contextual matters should be considered when it comes to the evaluation of art objects and events.https://www.aestheticinvestigations.eu/index.php/journal/article/view/209FormalismContextualismEvaluation
spellingShingle David Fenner
How Should Contextual Matters Figure into Art Evaluations?
Aesthetic Investigations
Formalism
Contextualism
Evaluation
title How Should Contextual Matters Figure into Art Evaluations?
title_full How Should Contextual Matters Figure into Art Evaluations?
title_fullStr How Should Contextual Matters Figure into Art Evaluations?
title_full_unstemmed How Should Contextual Matters Figure into Art Evaluations?
title_short How Should Contextual Matters Figure into Art Evaluations?
title_sort how should contextual matters figure into art evaluations
topic Formalism
Contextualism
Evaluation
url https://www.aestheticinvestigations.eu/index.php/journal/article/view/209
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