AESTHETIC EXPERIENCE
The monism/pluralism issue:
Monism: there is proper aim in aesthetics, interpretation should aim at satisfying this criteria.
Relativism: there are many equally good interpretations of AW,
Pluralism: there may be different interpretations of a AW, but that doesn't mean they are equally good.
If art interpretation has a plurality of aims, it is
quite possible that there are correct or true interpretations of works arrived in
pursuit of some of these other aims that do not make statements about the
artist’s intention.
the
pluralist is not saying that all interpretations are equally good. what
the pluralist is saying is that given a thing to be interpreted there
are different ways to interpret, different versions.
AESTHETICS
click this link for my explanation of aesthetic facts (please, read the info-consensus-best-consensus part).
Meaning in aesthetics:
is there meaning in AWs? there are 3 views:
Objectivism: meaning is something the thing has,
Subjectivism: something one brings to the thing,
Intersubjectivism: meaning is both objective and subjective, thus it's intersubjective.
Intentionalism: in aesthetics is the view that AW's are expressions of the actual intentions of their creators.
Interpretations of art works assert that a work expresses this or that actual
intention, and are true only in the event that the intention in question is
expressed in the work.
Aesthetic experience: Dewey and Beardsely believe that aesthetic properties emerge from the
object and the individual's own taste. When these experiences are shared
we obtain consensus on aesthetic properties. This seems to explain
stuff such as wine, paintings, etc.
Beardsley and Dewey talk of aesthetic experience as unified or
coherent, and complete.
Eddy Zemach adds that we also experience negative aesthetic properties as well – ugliness,
dreariness and so on – so their characterization is both too narrow and has the
wrong logical priority between aesthetic experience and aesthetic properties.
BEAUTY/PLEASURE
Disinterested pleasure: Shaftesbury
(eighteenth century) recognizes in the pleasurable response to
beauty an impartiality, a lack of self-interest. He adopts the
term "disinterested" from ethics to
describe the pleasure recognized as associated with beauty.
For Kant desinterested means that the pleasure of
beauty is like perceiving a solution to a problem, and enjoying it for its own sake,
rather than because personal rewards are anticipated.
The pleasure-principle tradition: Beauty evokes a pleasurable response. If while perceiving an object you do not
experience pleasure, you are not perceiving beauty.
TASTE
1- taste needs first-hand experience. this is known as knowledge by acquaintance. Just as one cannot decide that soup is well-seasoned without actually sipping
it, so one cannot conclude that music is lyrical and moving without hearing it.
2- though aesthetic taste is grounded in natural dispositions, it clearly requires cultivation.
Cultivation doesn't mean elitism. It means having access to the information.
3- taste is inter-subjective: one has it, but in addition, one learns about it through exchange of information with others, aesthetic notes can be learned.
4- judgements of taste are about objects: the statement "X is beautiful" is not just a report that it pleases the speaker, but a debatable claim that
refers to qualities in X, that may be noticed and enjoyed by others.
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