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Composite works of art : philosophy of art after Plato and Aristotle
| Resumo: | How art can be talked about is both an ancient and a contemporary issue. This thesis examines how Plato and Aristotle talked about art, exploring the possibilities and limits of their philosophical positions on how reality is organized and on how parts of it can be conceptualized. Preserving the theoretical framework of these authors while the original target of their discussions is broadened out, this argument describes what happens when someone engages in art talk. This activity involves composition, not as a task of causing changes in what and how things are made of, but as a composite work of explaining what is being made of things. Art talk is an activity that makes descriptions of the importance that certain aspects of objects and actions have for a person or a community, and so it attempts to explain that relation and how attention is being paid to them. Making sense of things requires constant specification and justification, which is the composite work of conceptualizing art. |
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| Autores principais: | Castro, Tomás N. |
| Assunto: | Platão, 0427?-0348? a.C. - Crítica e interpretação Aristóteles, 0384-0322 a.C. - Crítica e interpretação Arte - Filosofia Arte Teses de doutoramento - 2023 |
| Ano: | 2023 |
| País: | Portugal |
| Tipo de documento: | tese de doutoramento |
| Tipo de acesso: | acesso restrito |
| Instituição associada: | Universidade de Lisboa |
| Idioma: | inglês |
| Origem: | Repositório da Universidade de Lisboa |
| Resumo: | How art can be talked about is both an ancient and a contemporary issue. This thesis examines how Plato and Aristotle talked about art, exploring the possibilities and limits of their philosophical positions on how reality is organized and on how parts of it can be conceptualized. Preserving the theoretical framework of these authors while the original target of their discussions is broadened out, this argument describes what happens when someone engages in art talk. This activity involves composition, not as a task of causing changes in what and how things are made of, but as a composite work of explaining what is being made of things. Art talk is an activity that makes descriptions of the importance that certain aspects of objects and actions have for a person or a community, and so it attempts to explain that relation and how attention is being paid to them. Making sense of things requires constant specification and justification, which is the composite work of conceptualizing art. |
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