What Art Does - Ryan Mitchell Wittingslow

What Art Does

Using Philosophy of Technology to Talk about Art
Buch | Hardcover
136 Seiten
2023
Rowman & Littlefield (Verlag)
978-1-5381-6732-8 (ISBN)
85,95 inkl. MwSt
The question of what and how artworks mean things is conventionally satisfied by appealing to literature from either philosophy of art or philosophy of language. This book offers an alternative by positioning art as a type of meaning-making tool whose function can only be understood through the application of the philosophy of technology.
The real pleasure derived from asking what artworks mean drives us to expend so much cognitive energy analysing and discussing cultural artefacts: not just the paintings, sculptures, and installations one might encounter in mainstream galleries, but also novels, films, music, video games, poems, graffiti, comic books, theatre shows, dance performances, and whatever else. Despite both that pleasure and the seriousness with which we take that pleasure, the definition of artistic meaning is often unclear. Consequently, philosophers of art and philosophers of language tend to use a variety of non-overlapping definitions for meaning: as a matter of authorial intention, as the opinions of artworld publics, or as private exegesis.

This book takes a different approach. Rather than working from within philosophy of art or philosophy of language, this book begins with the claim that artworks constitute a special class of tool. Like other tools, artworks are objects that have functions and that furnish affordances. Unlike other tools, though, the functions artworks have and the affordances they furnish are a consequence of a rich—and surprisingly recent—historical and material tradition: a tradition wherein we take artworks as meaning-making things with something to say.

Ryan Wittingslow is an assistant professor at the University of Groningen, a senior Humboldt fellow at TU Darmstadt, and a research affiliate of the University of Sydney. Most of his research sits at the meeting ground between aesthetics, philosophy of design, philosophy of technology, and political philosophy.

Introduction

Chapter 1. Conditions

Chapter 2. Functions

Chapter 3. Affordances

Chapter 4. Artworlds

Chapter 5. Artworks

References

About the Author

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort Lanham, MD
Sprache englisch
Maße 159 x 240 mm
Gewicht 386 g
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Hilfswissenschaften
Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie
ISBN-10 1-5381-6732-8 / 1538167328
ISBN-13 978-1-5381-6732-8 / 9781538167328
Zustand Neuware
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