Towards a Wittgensteinian Aesthetics. Wollheim and the Analysis of Aesthetic Practices

In order to investigate the possibility to develop Wittgenstein's suggestions about aesthetics, this paper will focus on the organic perspective elaborated by Richard Wollheim in «Art and Its Objects». In this regard we will try to emphasize how the concept of art as a "form of live"...

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Main Author: Giovanni Matteucci
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Language:English
Published: Firenze University Press 2013-05-01
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Online Access:http://www.fupress.net/index.php/aisthesis/article/view/12838
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description In order to investigate the possibility to develop Wittgenstein's suggestions about aesthetics, this paper will focus on the organic perspective elaborated by Richard Wollheim in «Art and Its Objects». In this regard we will try to emphasize how the concept of art as a "form of live" - explicit in Wollheim - involves the analysis of the practices embodied in the experience of art starting from those of representation. The inception modes of such practices of representation need to be described in the use of specific anthropological abilities related to perception patterns that go beyond the mere statement of facts, in a fusion among aesthetic, cognitive and emotional levels. Deepening the relationships both between lived experience and expression, and expression and understanding, we will try to point out how Wollheim (and Wittgenstein) places any rhetoric of the ineffable out of the game, even regarding the analysis of the aesthetic experience.
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title Towards a Wittgensteinian Aesthetics. Wollheim and the Analysis of Aesthetic Practices
title_full Towards a Wittgensteinian Aesthetics. Wollheim and the Analysis of Aesthetic Practices
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title_short Towards a Wittgensteinian Aesthetics. Wollheim and the Analysis of Aesthetic Practices
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Aesthetics
Wollheim
Aesthetic experience
Expression
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