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Aesthetic Creation

Paperback • 2012 • English

Aesthetic Creation

By Nick Zangwill

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About the book

What is the purpose of a work of art? What drives us to make art? Why do we value art and consume it? Nick Zangwill argues that we cannot understand the nature of art without first having answers to these fundamental questions. On his view, which he dubs 'the Aesthetic Creation Theory', a work of art is something created for a particular aesthetic purpose. More specifically, the function of art is to have certain aesthetic properties in virtue of its non-aesthetic properties, and this function a...Show more

Theory of art
Forgery, falsification and theft of artworks
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ISBN

9780199645305

Publisher

OUP Oxford

Published year

2012

Language

English

Original title

Aesthetic Creation

Format

Paperback

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