Artistic creation and ethical criticism

Artistic Creation and Ethical Criticism advances a new, production-oriented approach to the ethical criticism of art. Its overarching arguments are these: (1) Judgments of an artwork's ethical value are often made in terms of how it was created, and, furthermore, this is in part because some ar...

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1. Verfasser: Nannicelli, Ted (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: New York Oxford University Press 2020
Schriftenreihe:Thinking art
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Zusammenfassung:Artistic Creation and Ethical Criticism advances a new, production-oriented approach to the ethical criticism of art. Its overarching arguments are these: (1) Judgments of an artwork's ethical value are often made in terms of how it was created, and, furthermore, this is in part because some art forms more readily lend themselves to this form of ethical appraisal. (2) Among the ways in which art is ethically criticized, this production-oriented approach more often leads to practical consequences (censure, dismissal, prosecution, shifts in policy, legislation) because its claim to objectivity is less contested than that of other sorts of ethical criticism. (3) Together, (1) and (2) constitute an approach to the ethical criticism of art that is not only tacit in many art appreciative practices, but which is rationally warranted and defensible
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and inde
Beschreibung:xii, 269 Seiten
Illustrationen, Portraits
ISBN:9780197507247
978-0-19-750724-7