Dear SAFollowers,
Our next talk will take place on Thursday, 24th April, 3-5pm (GMT), with Catharine Abell, on 'The Role of Experience in Appreciating Art'!
This event is hybrid - Catharine will join us in person at the University of St Andrews, in Edgecliffe, Room G03, and our online followers will be welcome to join on Zoom.
As always, the event is free and open to all.
Abstract, bio, and Zoom link below.
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ABSTRACT/
This paper concerns the epistemology of art appreciation. Some argue that the aesthetic appreciation of an artwork requires first-hand experience of it or of a suitable reproduction of it. However, some descriptions of avant-garde and contemporary artworks seem capable of putting us in a position to appreciate them. Either the appreciation of such artworks is not aesthetic, or first-hand experience is not always necessary for aesthetic appreciation. I will remain neutral regarding whether or not the appreciation of such artworks is aesthetic. Instead, I will try to identify some epistemic constraints on art appreciation that apply both to those works we can appreciate via descriptions of them and to those works the appreciation of which seems to require first-hand experience.
BIO/
Catharine Abell is Professor of Philosophy of Art at the Queen's College, Oxford. Her research addresses issues at the intersection of the philosophy of art, philosophy of language, and philosophy of mind. She is also interested in the nature and value of art, the expression of emotion, and in the nature of genre and style and their interpretative and evaluative roles. Her latest book, Fiction: A Philosophical Analysis, was published by Oxford University Press in 2020. In it, Abell develops an account of fiction as a social practice, providing original explanations of the nature of fiction, the norms governing its understanding and interpretation, and the nature of fictional entities. ZOOM/ https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89097452115... Meeting ID: 890 9745 2115 Passcode: 292219
Zoom link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89097452115?pwd=IiDd4sdMbMqEKExKaSDsjOwLhh5E0l.1
Meeting ID: 890 9745 2115
Passcode: 292219 |
While you wait patiently for Catharine's talk, you can always catch up on our past event via our YouTube channel!
We've recently uploaded the recording for Irene Martinez Marin's talk on 'The Normativity of Aesthetic Coherence'. |
Aesthetically yours,
The SAF Team |
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