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Philosophy and Conceptual Art
Edited by Peter Goldie and Elisabeth Schellekens
312 pages
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11 halftones
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234x156mm
978-0-19-928555-6
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Hardback
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22 March 2007
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- First collection of papers by analytic philosophers on this topic
- Excellent line-up of contributors
- Includes illustrations of artworks discussed
The fourteen prominent analytic philosophers writing here engage with the cluster of philosophical questions raised by conceptual art. They address four broad questions: What kind of art is conceptual art? What follows from the fact that conceptual art does not aim to have aesthetic value? What knowledge or understanding can we gain from conceptual art? How ought we to appreciate conceptual art?
Conceptual art, broadly understood by the contributors as beginning with Marcel Duchamp's ready-mades and as continuing beyond the 1970s to include some of today's contemporary art, is grounded in the notion that the artist's 'idea' is central to art, and,
contrary to tradition, that the material work is by no means essential to the art as such. To use the words of the conceptual artist Sol LeWitt, 'In conceptual art the idea of the concept is the most important aspect of the work . . . and the execution is a perfunctory affair'. Given this so-called 'dematerialization' of the art object, the emphasis on cognitive value, and the frequent appeal to philosophy by many conceptual artists, there are many questions that are raised by conceptual art that should be of interest to analytic philosophers. Why, then, has so little work been done in this area? This volume is most probably the first collection of papers by analytic Anglo-American philosophers tackling these concerns head-on.
Contributors
Margaret Boden, Diarmuid Costello, Gregory Currie, David Davies, Peter Goldie, Robert Hopkins, Matthew Kieran, Peter Lamarque, Dominic McIver Lopes, Derek Matravers, Elisabeth Schellekens, Kathleen Stock, Carolyn Wilde, and the 'Art & Language' group.Readership: Students and scholars of philosophy, aesthetics, and the theory of art
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Edited by Peter Goldie, University of Manchester, and Elisabeth Schellekens, Durham University Contributors:
Peter Lamarque
Derek Matravers
Gregory Currie
Robert Hopkins
Elisabeth Schellekens
Diarmuid Costello
Carolyn Wilde
David Davies
Peter Goldie
Kathleen Stock
Matthew Kieran
Margaret Boden
Dominic McIver Lopes
Art & Language
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"A healthy corrective to limited discussion can be had in Philosophy and Conceptual Art...many of the essays are illuminating and sophisticated...These artists smartly articulate a symbiosis or thorough melding of making and thinking, artistic practice and discursive critique." - Kirk E. Pillow MIND
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Introduction
I. Conceptual art as a kind of art
Peter Lamarque: On perceiving conceptual art
Derek Matravers: The dematerialization of the art object
Gregory Currie: The ontology of conceptual art
Robert Hopkins: Speaking through silence: conceptual art and conversational implicature
II. Conceptual art and aesthetic value
Elisabeth Schellekens: The aesthetic value of ideas
Diarmuid Costello: Kant After LeWitt: Towards an aesthetics of conceptual art
III. Conceptual art, knowledge and understanding
Carolyn Wilde: Mind and matter in the work of art: One and Three Chairs
David Davies: Telling Pictures: the place of narrative in late modern 'visual art'
Peter Goldie: Conceptual art and knowledge
Kathleen Stock: Sartre, Wittgenstein, and learning from imagination
IV. Appreciating conceptual art
Matthew Kieran: Artistic character, creativity, and the appreciation of conceptual art
Margaret Boden: Creativity and conceptual art
Dominic McIver Lopes: Conceptual art is not what it seems
Art & Language: Emergency Conditionals
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