What Art Does
Using Philosophy of Technology to Talk about Art
Seiten
2023
Rowman & Littlefield (Verlag)
9781538167328 (ISBN)
Rowman & Littlefield (Verlag)
9781538167328 (ISBN)
The question of what and how artworks mean things is conventionally satisfied by appealing to literature from either philosophy of art or philosophy of language. This book offers an alternative by positioning art as a type of meaning-making tool whose function can only be understood through the application of the philosophy of technology.
We derive a great deal of cognitive pleasure from asking what artworks mean. And yet, despite the seriousness with which we approach these questions, they all too often rely on theories of art that fail to adequately explain how art conveys meaning.
This book proposes a new theory. In contrast to more conventional definitions of art, What Art Does defends the claim that artworks constitute a class of tool. Like other tools, artworks are objects that have functions and that furnish affordances. However, thanks to the particular social and material facts that underpin the creation of artworks, the functions that artworks have and the affordances they furnish are special.
It is thanks to these special functions and affordances that artworks obtain their privileged character and status. Because artworks do things that other tools cannot, we take artworks to be meaning-making objects with something to say.
We derive a great deal of cognitive pleasure from asking what artworks mean. And yet, despite the seriousness with which we approach these questions, they all too often rely on theories of art that fail to adequately explain how art conveys meaning.
This book proposes a new theory. In contrast to more conventional definitions of art, What Art Does defends the claim that artworks constitute a class of tool. Like other tools, artworks are objects that have functions and that furnish affordances. However, thanks to the particular social and material facts that underpin the creation of artworks, the functions that artworks have and the affordances they furnish are special.
It is thanks to these special functions and affordances that artworks obtain their privileged character and status. Because artworks do things that other tools cannot, we take artworks to be meaning-making objects with something to say.
Ryan Wittingslow is associate professor of philosophy at the University of Groningen, a Humboldt research fellow at TU Darmstadt, and a research affiliate in Media Studies at the University of Sydney. Most of his research sits at the meeting ground between aesthetics, philosophy of design, philosophy of technology, and political philosophy.
Introduction
Chapter 1. Conditions
Chapter 2. Functions
Chapter 3. Affordances
Chapter 4. Artworlds
Chapter 5. Artworks
References
About the Author
| Erscheinungsdatum | 09.09.2023 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Global Aesthetic Research |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 159 x 240 mm |
| Gewicht | 386 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Hilfswissenschaften | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie | |
| ISBN-13 | 9781538167328 / 9781538167328 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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