The Definition of Art - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Oct 23, 2007 · The more traditional, less conventionalist sort of definition defended in contemporary philosophy makes use of a broader, more traditional concept of aesthetic properties that includes …
The Definition of Art - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Oct 23, 2007 · The definition of art is controversial in contemporary philosophy. Whether art can be defined has also been a matter of controversy. The philosophical usefulness of a definition of art has …
History of the Ontology of Art - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Aug 29, 2011 · Rather than attempting to make conjectures about such difficult exegetical topics, this entry focuses primarily on contributions made by authors who explicitly address themselves at length …
The Definition of Art - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Oct 23, 2007 · The definition of art is controversial in contemporary philosophy. Whether art can be defined has also been a matter of controversy. The philosophical usefulness of a definition of art has …
Aesthetic Experience - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Jan 20, 2023 · A paradigmatic aesthetic experience is a perceptual experience focused on the beauty of an object like a work of art or an aspect of nature. Some philosophers take it that this is the only kind …
Beauty (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
Sep 4, 2012 · The nature of beauty is one of the most enduring and controversial themes in Western philosophy, and is—with the nature of art—one of the two fundamental issues in the history of …
Aristotle’s Aesthetics - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Dec 3, 2021 · When opening the Poetics, the reader is struck by the repetition of the word mimêsis (and the verb mimeisthai), to the point that it defines what is (what we call) a work of art. Very roughly, one …
Conceptual Art > Notes (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
Notes to Conceptual Art 1. The term does, however, seems to have been used as early as 1961 in New York by the artist Henry Flynt in relation to some of the pieces and performances originating in the …
Aristotle’s Rhetoric - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
May 2, 2002 · Aristotle’s Rhetoric has had an unparalleled influence on the development of the art of rhetoric. In addition to Aristotle’s disciples and followers, the so-called Peripatetic philosophers (see …
Artifact (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
Jul 18, 2018 · A symphony is a so-called repeatable work of art, that is, a work with multiple instances. Performance arts of all kinds fall into this category, but so do cast sculptures, limited edition prints, …