Art and art attempts / Christy Mag Uidhir.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mag Uidhir, Christy, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art--Philosophy.

Art.

Physical Description:

vii, 222 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.

Summary:

Art & Art-Attempts aims neither to propose nor to defend any particular, precise answer to the question "What is art?" but instead to shows how taking intention-dependence seriously as a substantive necessary condition for being art can be profoundly revelatory, even radically revisionary, as to the scope and limits of what any particular, precise answer to such a question could viably be. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Art and Failed-Art 9

1.1 To be or not to be...or to fail to be 9

1.2 Φ, non-Φ, almost-Φ, and failed-Φ 10

1.2.1 An instructive example: lawyers and failed-lawyers 13

1.3 A theory of attempts 17

1.3.1 An instructive example: bluffs and bluff-attempts 18

1.3.2 Attempts to Φ versus Φ-attempts (attempts de re versus attempts de dicto) 21

1.3.3 Intentions in art and attempts in art theory 22

1.4 Failed-art and failed-art theory 26

1.4.1 Testing simple failed-art 28

1.4.2 The non-standard artifact defense 31

1.4.3 Complex failed-art 34

1.4.4 Testing failed-art 35

1.4.5 The failure of the artifact condition 40

1.4.6 A compatible art theory 42

1.5 Concluding remarks 43

The Attempt Theory of...Art and failed-art 44

2 Works and Authors 45

2.1 Introduction 45

2.2 Towards a responsible theory of authorship 47

2.2.1 Two kinds of author relevance 50

2.2.2 Minimal authorship (of sorts) 54

2.3 Collective production and authorship 57

2.3.1 Appropriation cases 58

2.3.2 Commission cases 61

2.3.4 F-informed production 65

2.3.5 Collaborative and non-collaborative authorship 66

2.3.6 Primary and secondary authorship 68

2.4 An instructive example: authorship (of the Comic sort) 69

2.4.1 Comic authorship: appropriating and commissioning 72

2.4.2 Comic authorship: collaborative and non-collaborative 74

2.5 Further thoughts on minimal authorship 76

2.6 Authors and works, artists and artworks 78

2.6.1 Art on the adjectival view 80

2.6.2 Art on the sortal view 83

2.7 Concluding remarks 84

The Attempt Theory of... Works and authors... 85

3 Art Forms and Art Sortals 86

3.1 Introduction 86

3.2 Trading forms for sortals 89

3.3 The art-sortal theory of art forms 91

3.3.1 Further modifications 95

3.4 Sortals and intention-dependence 98

3.5 An instructive example: photography 104

3.5.1 Considerations from the swamp 106

3.5.2 Photographs and natural objects 110

3.5.3 Reductio ad cameram absurdam 111

3.5.4 Photography as a mediated art form 117

3.6 Concluding remarks 121

The Attempt Theory of... Art forms and art sortals 122

4 Artists and Art Onta 123

4.1 Introduction 123

4.2 Art theory and art ontology 125

4.3 Artists and the artist-relation 130

4.4 Three putative artist-relations 132

4.4.1 Concreta and the making-relation 133

4.4.2 Pure abstracta and the discovery-relation 136

4.4.3 Impure abstracta and the creation-relation 140

4.4.4 Revising the artist-relation 143

4.5 Rejecting discovery and creation as artist-relations 146

4.5.1 The substantial versus the trivial 146

4.5.2 Creating versus equivocating 150

4.5.3 Bringing versus coming into existence 152

4.5.4 Proxy and ersatz responsibility 154

4.5 Concluding remarks 160

The Attempt Theory of... Artists and art onta 164

5 Repeatable Artworks and Relevant Similarity 165

5.1 Introduction 165

5.2 Devil's advocate for art-abstracta 167

5.3 Relevant similarity and repeatability 171

5.3.1 The print model of relevant similarity 173

5.3.2 Dueling repeatabilities 178

5.4 A framework for the art nominalist 179

5.4.1 Relevandy similar artworks 183

5.4.2 Relevandy similar F-works 183

5.4.3 Relevant similar F-artworks 184

5.5 Relevant similarity: poetry, poems, and poets 185

5.6 Relevant similarity: a novel ontology 189

5.7 Concluding remarks 193

The Attempt Theory of... Repeatable artworks and relevant similarity 196

6 Further Implications 198

6.1 Essentialism and anti-essentialism 199

6.2 Pluralism and reductionism 201

6.3 Eliminativism 205

6.4 Concluding remarks 208.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780199665778

019966577X

OCLC:

825557424