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 com...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: David Fenner
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nederlands Genootschap voor Esthetica (Dutch Association of Aesthetics) 2020-12-01
Series:Aesthetic Investigations
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Online Access:https://aestheticinvestigations.eu/article/view/11923