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Millington, Jeremy Daniel.

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An ethics of engaging with art: From criticism to conversation.

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	An ethics of engaging with art: From criticism to conversation./
作者:	Millington, Jeremy Daniel.
出版者:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2016,
面頁冊數:	225 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-07(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International78-07A(E).
標題:	Philosophy. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10247870
ISBN:	9781369483376

An ethics of engaging with art: From criticism to conversation.
Millington, Jeremy Daniel.

An ethics of engaging with art: From criticism to conversation. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2016 - 225 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-07(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Temple University, 2016.

The dissertation addresses the question, How should we engage with art? The thesis is that a practice of engaging with art ought to be sensitive with and to a work of art, and conversation better suits sensitivity than criticism. Conversation does not merely mean a conversation we may have about art. Instead, the project proposes that we treat artworks as conversational partners. The construction of the thesis involves three philosophical streams coming together. The first is a survey of prominent philosophical studies of criticism from the late 1930s to the 1960s---a watershed period for the philosophy of criticism---through to contemporary views that bear the legacy of that period, summarized and exemplified in Noel Carroll's philosophy of criticism. Second, the project contrasts the orthodox view with competing accounts, including those of visual art criticism from the late 1980s and 90s, the critical theory of Terry Eagleton, and the "philosophical criticism" of Stanley Cavell. The third stream consists of testing criticism (and conversation) against the criterion of sensitivity. Taken together, this approach looks at engagement in a more general way than what studies on criticism or other familiar practices tend to countenance. Writers and works that exemplify conversation, such as Wendell Berry, The Philadelphia Story (Cukor 1940), and Mary Poppins (Stevenson 1964) help explicate and uncover limits to conversation as well as what procures it. The project culminates by circling back to the criterion of sensitivity, looking at conversation's advantages in cultivating a suitably sensitive practice of engaging with art. The primary, substantive claim for conversation as the basis for an ethics of engaging with art is that conversation encourages a process of coming to an understanding with a work, where our prejudices and judgments are subject to the claims a work may make upon me at any given moment, without ceding to either the finality of judgment or the incompleteness of understanding provoked by over-familiarity, incessant talk, 'talking at' or 'past,' or silence. In the shift from criticism to conversation, we gain a clearer, more equitable understanding of what a work is doing. We curtail prejudice and evaluative bias; we respond more sensitively to the context for engaging with art; and, we ask more questions. Is this a setting where criticism is warranted or useful? Who are my interlocutors? What do they have to say?

ISBN: 9781369483376Subjects--Topical Terms:

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